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:
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>>Server is not meant for 'individual folks'?
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>>Interesting, considering that I operate a household that has to use a
>>local area network in order to run.
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>>Apple had better realize that within a few years, at least one-third of
>>the household systems will be running over a network.
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>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.
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>Steve
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