"Jack (MVP-Networking)." <jack@xxxxxx> wrote in message:
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> Hi
> If the computer is 486 you should forget about such an arrangement any
> Dollar that you put in it is a waste.
> Search eBay there are Dell Optiplex GX270 P-4 class computers that are
> going for about $100.
> They are small form computers and many of them come with Windows 2000, or
> WinXP COA...
Jack - many thanks for that. Both you and Al say that my old PC is too
ancient so I looked on eBay (UK for me), as you suggested, and found a very
nice Optiplex (actually a GX260) for just £42 including carriage, with XP
Home COA. I'm also please that the Dell is small as space is really tight.
"Sooner Al [MVP]" <SoonerAl@xxxxxx> wrote in message:
Quote:
> You might look at using an old PC, maybe not as old as you seem to
> indicate, as a Windows Home Server [WHS]. I use an old desktop as one. WHS
> automatically backs up my Vista Ultimate laptop and my wife's XP Pro
> desktop each night. You can do whole machine recoveries or individual
> files/folders from the backups. My WHS also acts as a print server for one
> of the two printers (an old HP LaserJet 6L) that we have and as a shared
> folder/file archive...
>
> Getting started guide including hardware requirements...
>
> http://download.microsoft.com/downlo...ingStarted.pdf Al - that sounds pretty much perfect. I looked at WHS on Amazon and it was
£100. With the hard drive - £80ish - we're looking at around about the same
cost as the Freecom network drive, so it's all in the same ballpark. (Unless
there is some sort of deal for upgrading XP Home to WHS, or similar. I
actually have an unused copy of XP Pro. so maybe I could go that way...)
And many thanks for the WHS pdf link - that's just what I need. I'll have a
read and if I get stuck, I'll let you know. (The word 'server' is still
rather scary!)
Anyway, thank you gents. I hadn't expected to get help from two (two!) MVPs
in the same thread. You're a top bunch - thank you again.
Cheers,
Chris
P.S. I appologies for not signing off in my original post. I wrote it
offline, in Word, and just copied over when I went online again. Clean
forgot to sign off - sorry!