sorry for the noob post but..what is the diff. between w2k & w2k serv?

[Drew888]

I have a very small office w/3 pc's.

2 (xp pro) are sharing files from a w2k (not server) pc that is somewhat of a psudo server that's in a air conditioned storage rm.

file sharing is not as fast as it should be and people here once told me to upgrade the hardware in the w2k machine to compensate (I have yet to do it).

I was thinking of upgrading to server, good or bad idea?, and what is the diff. between the two?

Thanks!!


Drew,

 

[buddafish]

With 2 pc's sharing files from 1 windows 2000 pc, buying and building a server might be overkill. If the pc sharing the files runs slow with W2k pro, it will most likely run slower running W2k server. Maybe upgrade the hardware as suggested and observe if things speed up. If you want to move to the server, what you get are more services like DNS, DHCP, WINS, ect and a OS based on the premise of multi-concurrent connections processing multiple requests, ect.. and it would best be running on a box optimized for servers. Anyway, depending on what you have now, maybe add some ram, kill any unnecessary processes, software, ect running on the box serving the files.

good luck
scottie

 

[Drew888]

Scottie...thanks!

can you point me to where I can find out just what services are ok to kill?