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MovedGoalPosts · 17-11-2005, 23:51

Sounds like your network is a bit of a mess.

Get a router to provide the internet connection stright into your network.

Better still get a new server running Small Business Server - that server will do all your fileshares, printer controls, gives you email using exchange so you can properly share diaries and the like, and it'll do the internet controlling bit, provided you get a server with two network cards. That will then leave the server to be a server, and the XP Pro PC to be a workstation. Best of all if you set the server up right, you deny all users local admin rights so they can't stick software on that messes the PC up without you knowing about it!

17-11-2005, 23:51	#4
MovedGoalPosts Inactive Join Date: Jun 2003 Location: 127.0.0.1 Age: 61 Posts: 15,868	Re: network internet problems Sounds like your network is a bit of a mess. Get a router to provide the internet connection stright into your network. Better still get a new server running Small Business Server - that server will do all your fileshares, printer controls, gives you email using exchange so you can properly share diaries and the like, and it'll do the internet controlling bit, provided you get a server with two network cards. That will then leave the server to be a server, and the XP Pro PC to be a workstation. Best of all if you set the server up right, you deny all users local admin rights so they can't stick software on that messes the PC up without you knowing about it!