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Originally posted by pHaestus
Sharing and permissions and group policies are pretty similar in Windows 2000 and Windows XP Pro. I use XP at the house now out of convenience (I'd have to go find my 2000 pro cd) rather than any real need. I do like cleartype fonts but that's hardly an issue on a fileserver. On the minus, XP Pro is quite a bit more bloated by default than is 2k. On the plus side, XP Pro includes the remote desktop app so you can log onto the server from your other boxes to configure it.
I would guess that XP would require a bit more tweaking and trimming of software to get to run well on your system. Whatever you do, avoid XP Home as it is missing a lot of networking features that you may want to use.
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i'm thinking of maybe just sticking with 2000 for now on this machine, since it's going to be a fairly slow box.
but, then again, all it has to do is store my files and act like a network drive, so a fast box really shouldn't be all that necessary. like i said, i will probably run a lot of AV and firewall software, just because the machine is dedicated for this, and i shouldn't notice a performance loss.
xp home isn't even a consideration. i've played with it a little, and it reminded me a lot of ME.
i'm just thinking, i'm not even sure if i can run a 1gig celeron on this board. it says celerons of 66mhz fsb, although the board supports the 100/133fsb of the p3. so, it might support the 1gig celeron, assuming it will adapt itself to the 100mhz fsb.
i guess the only reason i _wouldn't_ run 2000 is 2 points... the networking issues between xp pro and 2000 pro (if there are any), and system stability/security. i know the 2000 pro sp1 had a bad tendency of hosing file systems, and was highly NOT recommended. i just downloaded the network install of sp4 off m$'s site, so hopefully by round 4 that's no longer an issue. hopefully with some of the other bugs as well.
logging on from elsewhere isn't a big deal.. the system will be right here. it's not going to be available to the outside world either. i don't need that security risk.
i dunno. it's almost like it's not really worth it, as well tho. i mean, i can put together a 2.4-2.6 celeron box for like 150-175$. but then again, i can build this for like $40, and it should do what i want for now. so, it's probably not worth the extra cash, and it puts some spare parts to use i guess. then down the road i can build some crazy-ass raid 5 1terabyte lan server and go silly nuts
