Re: Help! I'm new and have many questions!

Making a server out of desktop hardware puts you on shaky ground which you
have already discovered! And it sounds like you want to use it as a desktop
even if you were able to get the server software installed which is not good
either. I understand that this is for a home business and that may remove
some of the security issues of having someone using the server to work on
but you will still want to browse the web with something. If you have made a
server out of your desktop and you have no other PC you will be using the
"server".....and that opens you up to security problems too. It also sounds
like you are planning to host a public web site from your SBS and that is
another security risk that you are opening your server up to. I would also
assume that your desktop does not have any form of RAID configuration which
makes the possibility of more problems down the road.

I know this post has been nothing but negative but as others post on this
topic you will most likely find more things that I haven't mentioned with
trying to make a server out of desktop hardware.

Jeff

"Bear" <Bear@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:2CE41910-F427-4428-B358-6C067140A960@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Hello, I have an online biz that I currently run out of my home. I plan on
> opening up my first store front in April. In order to prepare for this
> venture I have purchased SBS 2003 to put on my new computer. I HAD win XP
> home addition which worked fine but I new that the features in SBS 2003
> would
> be better. It turned out not to be able to upgrade from XP so it deleted
> XP.
> But now that SBS 2003 is installed I cannot:
> 1. install any of my printers
> 2. install any of my MCFEE virus software
> 3. my computer does not recognize any of the installed drivers for sound
> or
> my dual moniter card from ATI
> -My software and printer error states that they are for win 2000, ME & XP.
> And will not work on this system. HELP! Is there any way that I can have
> XP
> running in the background with the SBS software? As you can probably
> tell, I
> am new to servers. I currently need to print out customer receipts but
> can't. Please help! Any guidance will be greatly appreciated. Thank you.


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