Hey - I have a client I inherited. Small office, using SBS (NT4). They have everything running off the one box (including Exchange). I'm thinking I'd like to reduce the load on that machine. I want to do it legally.

I'm thinking about leaving Exchange, DHCP, Domain Admin and everything else on the existing box and moving the shares to another machine - maybe to a SNAP server or a LINUX box running SAMBA - but it just occurred to me that since they have the SBS licensing, maybe it would be easier and just as cheap to add another server. Is it true that I don't have to get additional licenses if I just want to add a file server to the same domain? Would it be legal for me to install their existing SBS on a second machine, or would I have to buy another copy with zero client licenses?

Also - whether I go with Linux, SNAP or NT I'll have to worry about backups. I suspect the backup SW that comes with NT will not handle the additional machine - what is recommended?

TIA