[murfitUK]

I'm working on a project for a small charity split over 4 different offices. Each office has a broadband connection and the computers within each office are all networked.

They would like to set up a server so that all users can save and access documents instead of having to email the documents to each other.

The main requirement is that they can open word and excel documents from the server, make changes and save etc.

I need to be able to set up users - eg barbara (who will be able to access a folder called 'barbara'), margaret (to access a folder called 'margaret') and so on. All users to be able to access a folder called shared.

Each user will have some sort of icon in My Computer that they can open in exactly the same way as they would any other folder on their computer. Also, if they are saving a document in Word, when they do Save As they will be able to save to the server in exactly the same way as they would save to a folder on their computer.

The server will be based at one office but must be accessible by the other offices.

Do I need some special server software to do this. Was looking at Server 2003 but don't know if its what I need.

I would appreciate any guidance. Any easy to understand tutorial websites that I could read? Have looked at a few sites but all start from the novel premise that I know what I'm doing.