Hi Jay,

Just an explanation I do with my home network. It might give some ideas.

4 - workstations.
2 - Laptops
1 - Server.

Workstations:
1 XP Prof, 1 for development
1 Windows 98, testing
1 XP Home, Private and administration
1 Win2000/XP prof in dual boot, Testing machine

Laptops
1 XP, Business laptop, SQL - server
1 Windows 98, Testing laptop.

Server,
Windows 2000 server, Using for :
- Gateway to Internet through NAT.
- VPN, to allow my coleages to log in
- Terminal Server, to allow my coleage to develop applications through TS.
- Stores all sourcecode of my projects.
- Printer server.
- Domain controller
- SQL Server

Further for testing purposes.
- Three networks. 10MB BNC(coax), 100MB UTP, and 54 MBPS Wireless

For productivity,
- Using dual monitor (1280 x 1024) for development (though I love to upgrade to a triple monitor setup).

Walter,

>I've just obtained 3 PCs. One Dell Optiplex that is server quality, and 2 Dell Dimensions that are solid workstations. I've networked them together with a simple LincSys hub. Now, what to do with them? I have all my data on 1 workstation, loaded some programs on the other and have done nothing yet with the server. I think I'm interested in learning more about network administration, SQL Server and database administration... But, I'm also interested in learning about .NET and other development languages. Anyone have any suggestions as to how to best use this setup? What would be the best place to load what and how can I get the most out of this?