[SWLUG] Network Question

[Davage, Marcus]

Hi,

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.

Has anyone
(a) done this before,
(b) got any advice/tips/howtos/gotchas,
(c) got any free time for consultancy,
(d) know anyone with free time for consultancy?

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).

Thanks,

Marcus


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