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tonydev

Hey all -

I hope this is the right crowd to be asking, but I work at an office
which operates about 10-15 PCs, both OSX and XPpro. We have just
purchased a pretty heavy windows server 2003 machine hoping to help
organize some of our internal file structure and enable such things
such as a web server, etc.

I feel confident in setting up the actual server itself, software,
settings, etc. However, before I get too deep into it - I was hoping I
could clarify the actual hardware structure we have here at the office
before I start moving to much stuff around.

We have a standard firewall box, a 20 something port switch, this new
server, and about 13 client computers. The current setup is

firewall --> switch --> clients

I'm wondering where I inject the server into all of that?

firewall --> server --> switch --> clients

What's the best way to do this?

Thanks so much and I apologize for my ignorance (i'm a designer by
trade, not a tech ;) )

Thank you --

Tony DeVincenzi
 
Hey all -

I hope this is the right crowd to be asking, but I work at an office
which operates about 10-15 PCs, both OSX and XPpro. We have just
purchased a pretty heavy windows server 2003 machine hoping to help
organize some of our internal file structure and enable such things
such as a web server, etc.

I feel confident in setting up the actual server itself, software,
settings, etc. However, before I get too deep into it - I was hoping I
could clarify the actual hardware structure we have here at the office
before I start moving to much stuff around.

We have a standard firewall box, a 20 something port switch, this new
server, and about 13 client computers. The current setup is

firewall --> switch --> clients

I'm wondering where I inject the server into all of that?

firewall --> server --> switch --> clients

What's the best way to do this?

Thanks so much and I apologize for my ignorance (i'm a designer by
trade, not a tech ;) )

Thank you --

Tony DeVincenzi
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Just put it where you'd put an additional client.
 
If it is a file server, absolutely - with the clients. If it is a public web
server, then in the firewall's DMZ. If it's both, back to the original
answer (like another client) with the port(s) for http, https, ftp or
whatever forwarded from the firewall to it's (static) private IP address.

kurt
 
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