Balthazar, Wow, sounds pretty complicated. My idea is tuck the headless music server pc under my desk, hard wire it to my network and control it with my xp desktop. I have a usb 300GB external hard drive that contains my ripped apple lossless music files. I also have a nice usb Sony external cd/dvd burner. The MS pc does have usb2 so I thought I would hook the hard drive and cd/dvd burner to it. The process would be: Reformat the hard drive and load the new Linux based operating system. Load Itunes (will Itunes run on an Linux based system) and Slimserver. Hookup the external hard drive and cd burner. Load whatever software I need to control the MS pc from my desktop pc. WaLa, run Itunes and slimserver which reside on the music server pc from my desktop pc. I think this is possible, if it is possible for me to accomplish this I am not so sure. I could always leave it as a windows based computer and use switch boxes for the monitor,keyboard and mouse, but all I need it to do is run SS and Itunes. This computer is extremely slow running XP, wouldn't Linux be a much more efficient system for accomplishing what I want to do? Any suggestions out there?
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