small office

I'm not much of an IT guy, just helping out where I work. My experience includes setting up a WAMP package on a computer running Windows 7 about 15 years ago. It seemed to impress everyone here, we still use it daily. They come running to me for this kind of thing, even though it's not my...

Hi all, I have a friend who runs her own accountancy business, she currently has a Dell poweredge server with Windows 2008 R2 Standard on it. It used to be used for regular server related tasks, such as user accounts (4-5 staff members), file sharing and MSSQL. She has since closed her...

Hi there, I'm setting up an HPE Proliant Microserver Gen10 for a simple small office file share and host a Filemaker Database. There is 4 HD slots and I have 4 x 1TB drives. I can setup all four in a RAID 10 array which gives performance and redundancy but only gives me 1 volume. Should I be...

Hi. I have a small office network consisting of around seven computers. They are connected via a Netgear ProSafe GS108T switch and all are connected at gigabit speed. They are all accessing a single Access database on a CPU that acts as a dedicated server. I'm currently upgrading all the...

Hello, I am planning to redo my small office network. Right now every computer is connected through a workgroup and some computers are sharing files to everyone and some need a login to share other files. I want to run a main server where all the files are on that computer and have it share all...

Help, PLEASE! I work in a small business office and my computer is the main one everyone else is networked to. Had XP but I have a new computer now with Windows 7 and I am having trouble getting the network operating so that people can print to my printer. Everyone can get online, but not able...

Recently upgraded one machine on our small office network to 7 in order to learn the product. All other transition went smoothly and impressed with increase in speed and ease of use for the average user. Stats are: Dell Dimension E520 Dual Core 1.8GHz 2GB Ram Windows 7 Ultimate PC is wiredAll...

Hello! I work in a small office of about 5 people. We have 2 computers running Windows 7 and 3 computers running Windows Vista. The problem I am having is that the windows 7 computers are able to see and use the printers and files on the vista machines, however the Vista machines are NOT...

I am unable to create a completely open network between multiple computers running Win7, Vista and XP on a simple Workgroup network? I need all devices (hardrives, DVD, CD, etc…) available to all machines without any restrictions (not just the Public Directory). It was working fine until...