Server

I am hopefully getting this 2 year old server from a local business in the next week; I accepted it without knowing the specifications, but I am pretty sure it has good storage as it was used to keep the data of about 10,000 clients, possibly more.

Being new to any form of server, I have a few questions:

1) What sort of stuff should I use if for considering that I already have a host for my site?

2) Will it be hard to configure, I am pretty certain it has Windows NT installed; well that is what I gathered from the company?

I don't have that many files to store on it as a file server; about 7Gb of music and video, less than 1Gb of photos, and possibly 1Gb of other documents. This makes me think that lots will be wasted unless I start taking lots of photos really soon.

Thanks in advance

Angus Higgins

Angus wrote:

Being new to any form of server, I have a few questions:

1) What sort of stuff should I use if for considering that I already have a host for my site?

2) Will it be hard to configure, I am pretty certain it has Windows NT installed; well that is what I gathered from the company?

You just need a file share for network access?  Will this be at home?  What else do you need besides a file share?

And with NT 4 on it might not be worth it? How old exactly is it? YOu will want to upgrade the OS

staceyw wrote:

Angus wrote: Being new to any form of server, I have a few questions: 1) What sort of stuff should I use if for considering that I already have a host for my site? 2) Will it be hard to configure, I am pretty certain it has Windows NT installed; well that is what I gathered from the company?

You just need a file share for network access?  Will this be at home?  What else do you need besides a file share?

It will be at home, I will use it for file sharing, but I want to know what else I can use it for; maybe data logging?

j0217995 wrote:

And with NT 4 on it might not be worth it? How old exactly is it? YOu will want to upgrade the OS

I am not exactly sure what OS it has as I have not spoken to the IT admin at the business that it is coming from; I can probably obtain this information by tommorrow evening.

Thanks

Angus Higgins

There are many things you could do... there are several FOSS projects that will enable you to turn that box into a full fledged DHCP server/firewall, or a PBX box. Those are the two most interesting options to me, other than hosting a file server.

I just installed Server 2003 on my box tonight so that I can get back into C# Development... if you can get your hands on that (if the system can handle it) you could play around with that?