Re: File Server Update and Thanks for the Usual Good Advice!
- From: "Pat Conover" <pat conover at comcast dot net>
- Date: Tue, 1 May 2007 19:16:11 -0400
"Tom Scales" <tjscales@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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From: Pat Conover [mailto:pat conover at comcast dot net]
Posted At: Monday, April 30, 2007 9:02 PM
Posted To: alt.sys.pc-clone.dell
Conversation: File Server Update and Thanks for the Usual Good Advice!
Subject: File Server Update and Thanks for the Usual Good Advice!
A little update for the regulars who helped me with all the Usual Good
Advice! With your help, this went smoother than I ever thought it
would.
(fingers crossed I didn't just crash my server).
Well I finally got around to hooking up my little closet Peer to Peer
File
Server project for my Home Office network. An old donated Dimension
8100
with a 1.3GHz P4, upgraded to 640MB of RAMBUS (512MB for $75 on eBay), a
300GB Seagate IDE HD was an extra backup one laying around, with 100GB
partitions for C, F and X (backup) drives, a Netgear Gigabit NIC $25
Newegg
and Win XP Home SP2 OEM $99 Newegg too. I put the Netgear Gigabit
Switch
(thanks to Tom for his recommendation) in the closet downstairs about a
month ago and had no problems getting my Dim 9150 connected a Gigabit
speeds
with plug and play.
So this morning I downloaded the XP2 BIOS update and flashed the BIOS,
No
Problems, so far so good! Next in went Free AVG, Free ZoneAlarm, SpyBot
S&D
and Free Adaware. Immunized my machine with SpyBot. Installed the
drivers
for the Netgear NIC, shutdown, installed the NIC and powered back up.
Plugged it in and was on the net in no time, with ZoneAlarm howling
about
all the new programs wanting access. Updated AVG twice and ran a full
scan.
Then onto M$ windows updates...75 and counting. Finally all updated,
patched, locked down, etc. Transferring all my files with copy and
paste to
the new server F drive, need to map the other machines to the F drive
and
away we go! Need to disconnect the old drive in my old 8200 and save it
for
a rainy day backup.
Only one Yellow Splat left on the 8100 server and that's the Dell
Support
Button, which I never installed on the clean XP installation and is now
disabled.
Anyway thanks to all those regulars and others who posted and help me on
this project. A Job Well Done, take a Bow please!
Thanks again, Pat Conover
Good news -- glad it was a success. I have an 8100 sitting in my
closet, likely never to be powered up again :)
Yep Tom, sometimes it's good to post the Good News here, as well as the it's
Broke how do I... As I was told by the Regulars, that 8100 is a tad on the
noisy side though, but it's for my office and in a closet, so no biggie.
.
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