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Pastimes : Dream Machine ( Build your own PC ) -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Street Walker who wrote (1551)	6/29/1998 11:55:00 AM
From: Clarence Dodge	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 14778

S.w. & Howard I feel guilty and appreciative for the answers you guys have provided before I got the chance to do more research. My excuse is having to spend three computerless days a week for the rest of the summer working on the new location where this Mac/PC network will be housed. As per Howards cost comparison between do-it-yourself/ Webramp networking setups, 50% savings compels me to take my configuration fears in hand and go that route. My only concern, so far, about this solution is the absence of a router, presumably replaced by WinProxy or Nevod, (is my structural understanding of this network correct?), which the Webramp solution would provide. Should I be concerned? Sean indicates use of a router to be more reliable. As it stands now, this machine will serve as my gateway machine for itself and the one Macintosh as well as running direct order execution SW ( Real Tick III or other) and I'd like to keep it at just that. So there will, most likely, be other PC machines added to this network in the future. The basic two machine network I am planning now has to provide for expansion and reliability as foundation precepts. Also concerning the version of WinNT I should use, what is the difference between the workstation version and the server version? I ask because I've read that NT server version has a file called SFM, Services for Macintosh, which looks useful for file sharing and no doubt wouldn't hurt a Mac/PC network connection to the web no matter which solution I go with. Clarence