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

Thanks Jeff.

"Jeff Teel" wrote:

> I appreciate your not taking the comments personally. One problem with a NG
> form of communication is you can't hear the tone in which people are
> speaking or see their faces as they speak.....are they reaming me out, are
> the making fun of what I'm trying to do or do they think I'm crazy for
> trying to do a certain thing? None of the above are true for me anyway and
> I'm sure that applies to most everyone here as well. Not being honest with
> answering your questions or mentioning the drawbacks in what you were
> planning to do would be a disservice to you and I know that I have
> appreciated the honesty of many here at this NG with my questions.
>
> You mentioned that you were not able to install your virus software. Am I
> assuming correctly that this was on your XP machine previously? If so it is
> not going to work with SBS. It's just not made for a server environment. You
> also mentioned sound drivers. I'm not sure if SBS even supports sound since
> it's not normally used in a Desktop situation. Most people only spend time
> setting in front of their actual server doing major Service Pack updates so
> a high end sound card and video card are not needed. As for the printer
> errors you've answered that problem yourself. The drivers and software are
> not for Win2003 server environment.
>
> After all is said and done it "may" have been better to upgrade to XP Pro
> and used the Remote Desktop feature to gain access to your files and to
> print. I've not done that over the Internet but have done it on my LAN and
> it works well.
>
> Hopefully you can get things sorted out after learning more about how a
> server environment works and what it takes to set everything up.
>
> Thanks
> Jeff
>
>
>
> "Bear" <Bear@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
> news:7C073D77-A175-4F09-AF33-51154924E73C@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > Thanks Jeff. I really appreciate your help. I currently have two laptops
> > also. In an attemp to grow my biz, I have began to travel alot for
> > advertising. The problem was that I could not acquire items such as
> > documents from my home computer while traveling. So a friend (information
> > management) convinced me that SBS 2003 would be a great investment
> > presently
> > and in the future. So I went to EBay and bought it, after I did some
> > research. It seemed like the perfect solution. Print and access documents
> > remotely. Great. My website will continue to be hosted on either BCentral
> > or
> > Godaddy. I just wish that I could get my printers, sound and anti-virus
> > software to work properly. I paid alot of money for the dual ATI monitor
> > card. LOL. I have just downloaded the SBS 2003 guide so that I can learn
> > more about it. I just hope its not too late. LOL. Thanks Jeff for your
> > honesty.
> >
> > "Jeff Teel" wrote:
> >
> >> 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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