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<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">Hi,</FONT>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">A friend of mine has been given six brand spanking (will spam filters reject that word?) new PCs with Windows XP (I know, I know) on 'em, and full ethernet & wireless networking, for him to set up a volunteer-led after-school homework club in a local community centre in Cardiff. What he wanted to do was to use one of them as a file/print server and firewall and use the other five as workstation clients. The copy of XP he has will not allow him to set one up as a server, so I suggested dual-booting the one as a Linux server, and getting the others to access that instead. Normal client/server functionality would apply - user details held on server, profile and personal files copied to client when logging on, copied back when logging off.</FONT></P>
<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">Has anyone</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">(a) done this before,</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">(b) got any advice/tips/howtos/gotchas,</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">(c) got any free time for consultancy,</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">(d) know anyone with free time for consultancy?</FONT>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">My experience of Linux is as a home workstation only, and I've never set up a network before, so I can't help him very much (although I'm a quick learner).</FONT></P>
<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">Thanks,</FONT>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">Marcus</FONT>
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