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Subject: mmmm...
Name:
 ludicrous
Date: 1/17/2002 1:06:01 AM (GMT-7)
IP Address: 138.67.74.229
In Reply to: Re: More.. posted by
Chris
Message:
If I am not mistaken, for Windows operation the program usually resides locally, although it may pull licensing information from a master server. That is, unless you are doing a pure kiosk login to a Unix/Linux system. But that sometimes limits ease-of-use. Also on NT/2k systems you can have roaming profiles, where user-specific program settings et al are loaded to the local machine whenever the user logs in. That, of course, assumes that the client machines are NT/2k (and I assume XP professional offers the same?).
However if your client machines are indeed Win9x, I suspect you might encounter more problems then you would solve in trying to make a "very limited" OS do things it was never really designed to do. Some of the advanced networking functionality (Map Network Drive, for example) is there but it really exists as a tack-on feature.
You could, however, still set up a "file server" system and use it for mass data storage, either via a Network Neighborhood share or by establishing a network drive space. As for backup...unless you need automatic scheduled backup service, or need to backup several gigabytes at a time, for a really small network I would suggest doing it manually to CD-R/RW. Just establish, for example, five (one for each business day) and rotate through them.
Mind you, I don't have a LOT of experience in the kind of thing you are describing...
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