Central Server Problem

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Alan

Hi,

My company has five offices all on a WAN, each with a simple peer-to-peer
network. We have now just got our hands on one Windows 2000 Server which
will be used primarily for some not very computer taxing accounts software.
My question is:
If I want to get all the users at each of the five offices (about 50 users
in all) logging onto the server rather then just on their local desktops,
will the server and/or the network be able to cope? All users will just be
using file/printer sharing to start with, progressing to (ideally) Terminal
Services later.
The network is 256K lines between each depot and the server is a PIII 850
with 512 MB of RAM & 60GB Hard Disk.
Many thanks for any help.

Alan
 
Your server as is will not allow 50 users to utilize Terminal Services. It
is WAY too slow and has not nearly enough RAM. Terminal Services requires
128MB of RAM for each concurrent user connection to run at all worth a crap.

If you wish to get all of the users to authenticate to the server as a
domain controller, that server should work fine.

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