I have a relatively new (last two years) PC (EMachines) that I bought real cheap new for the kids one Christmas, and we have since replaced. I am thinking about trying to use it as a server (for hosting documents and data) on our network at the office. The office has three laptops (2 Vista, 1 XP) and a couple of networked printers. We may also be getting a networked high tech Copy machine that is also a high speed scanner.
Ideally, I'd like to be able to have the "server" store documents we all would access (to cut out emailing back and forth), like bulletin files; I'd also use it as a repository for the scanned document PDFs the copier produces.
My question is: what is the best way to do that? Assume that the PC can be wired into the network. Assume that it could run either XP or Vista. Assume thatI'd like to run it without a monitor, but if I need to, I can attach a monitor.
Any help (including great detail!
) woudl be appreciated.