This may be elementary to some but here goes. I've got a mix of mac's running 9 and X on a lan. I'd like to dedicate a machine as a file server (3 users max). How easy is it to use a faster Windows machine for this purpose? Looking to control costs. May also want to use it for light-duty web serving if it doesn't make my network security weak.
Using your lone peecee as a file and web server is easy enough to do, but it's also costly... For the file serving, you can do SMB or FTP. You'll need packages like DAVE to fill in the functionality holes. For the web serving, Windoze comes with IIS - the holey server software that was infected by the likes of Blaster earlier this year. At this point, there are new "updates" for Windows and anti-virus being issued DAILY. So if your server is to be publically accessable at all - plan for both downtime and your labour. Also don't forget to install and maintain a good quality firewall.
IMO, you'd be a lot better of making your LAN pure Mac...
My personal pref is a Mac OS 8/9 based system, running File Sharing and NetPresenz (ftp, http). Set it up and just let it run.
FWIW, - Dan.
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