Server - When to install one?

From: Alex (a_at_j.com)
Date: 05/20/04 

Date: Thu, 20 May 2004 15:24:30 GMT

Question is:
When does a small office with 4-5 networked machines running some flavor of
Windows need a "server" machine as opposed to just another pc running Xp Pro
acting as the server for the other machines?

They are just file sharing and off-loading data file from their PC's to the
server machine. Seems to me that any PC on the network can fill that
function. Yes/No?

When I say server I mean maybe a Unix server or Windows 2000 Server etc.

Advantages/disadvantages?

Thanks,
Alex 

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