Okay Steve... ...please explain the best way for a 'household' user to network a group of 3 to 7 computers. You could probably write a good book about such and make a lot of money in the process. Be advised, various machines do various tasks; manage household-automation, offer up FileMaker Pro databases, allow Windows database access. Life gets 'complicated' these days. Please explain how to 'decomplicate' it. Regards, Chuck(le) P.S. You might be able to get $100 per incident for it and beat the pants off of Apple. Steve Roy wrote: >[log in to unmask] (Chuck Pelto) wrote: > > > >>Server is not meant for 'individual folks'? >> >>Interesting, considering that I operate a household that has to use a >>local area network in order to run. >> >>Apple had better realize that within a few years, at least one-third of >>the household systems will be running over a network. >> >> > >I probably should know better than respond to this, but I must point out that >'network' is not equal to 'server'. You don't need Mac OS X server to operate a >network. Minimally, all you need is a router. The only reason you need Mac OS X >Server is if you serve stuff, like you have a file/web/mail server that >hundreds/thousands of users need to access over a big LAN, or over a WAN, and >you need sophisticated tools to administer the whole thing. Note that you can >get a lot of mileage for this just with plain Mac OS X anyway. > >Steve > >-- >Steve Roy <[log in to unmask]> >Personal homepage: <http://homepage.mac.com/sroy> >Projects homepage: <http://www.roydesign.net> > > > >