[Angry@VMedia]

Hi devonps!

TBH, i would rather have a GUI such as windows, as I know this os like the back of my hand(s) inside out and all that nonsense!
Also another choice of using Windows is that I have some software that is only made for windows to monitor other pc's (ie active PIP, so I can see what people are doing just as if I was sat next to them as it would help doing this than keep running backwards & forwards doing this on 1 pc, then running back to the server etc) and yes, I will be having KMV attatched to it as I will also use this server as my primary downloading machine!

I am not at all concerned about email serving, as every pc has its own email client running in the background that downloads email as it arrives, so this is 1 less worry for me!

Concerning the assigned IP addresses, I did once try this on an old Linksys router, with disappointing results (I manually set the IP ranges in the router setup, but when trying to use an assigned address on the PC, wireless would come up as if it was connected, but thats as far as it went, I couldnt even ping the router, so I gave that up as a bad idea and reverted to DHCP! Being as the server will be running 27/7 this IP address would stay the same, and i am not too bothered about IP's to be honnest, as could I not just use the machine names to access the computers on the network?

Really sorry, but this is really over my head, and with only having 3 hrs sleep, cant get my head into it!

Thanks for your time though, you have definately helped and I will take it all onboard!

And to be quite honnest, if I cannot get this stupid wireless router to behave, im gonna take it back & just buy a wired hub and be done with wireless! far too much hastle for me