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Compaq Proliant 1500 & W98

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by jfradette

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Recently my church was given a working Compaq Proliant 1500 w/2 procs and all 5 hotswap drive bays loaded. My Pastor doesn?t want to run NT, but wants to run Windows 98 on it as a server since he and the office staff are familiar w/W98, butnot familiar w/NT. Can W98 support the drive array? And what about the multiple processors? If so what considerations or configurations would I have to conform to?

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by mmcdade

Geez, this is a hard one, just based on the information you provided, so I'm just gonna give my two-cents worth and let others add.

Based on what you've described, here's what I'd like to know:

1) How many PC's are you connecting at the church?

2) What are your file sharing/printing needs?

3) Is network security a concern?

3) What are all 5 hotswap drive bays loaded *with*? That should prove interesting.

In short, WIN98 doesn't act as a stand-alone server. Depending on you networking needs, and the number of PC's involved, a peer-to-peer network solution sounds like it's your best bet. In any case, your end users won't notice a difference if you run an NT Server with WIN98 clients. Also, the Compaq 1500 is a retired product with not much processing speed or memory. But that's no problem and won't affect your network if it's not too large.

I'm sure others will have more input about your question. In any case, I'd use what you have as a learning opportunity (as long as you don't disrupt the services your users already enjoy!).

Peace, and best of luck,

Mark Mcade

by jfradette

This is about what I thought, but they were trying to avoid jumping off into NT. Which may well be the best solution in order to get the array to function properly.

Thanx, jf

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