Thanks Walter,

Couple of in-line questions...

>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

Do you keep W98 around because of legacy stuff? What do you mean by administration? Of the network or is that just personal stuff?

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

Meaning you have just the client-side of SQL Server setup, right? Enterprise Manager, stuff like that?

>
>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

What is NAT? Source code: Do you use a controller like VSS or do you mean you delevelop directly to a shared directory on this machine or is it just a place to keep archived source code?

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

Do you have all machines on all three?

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

I hear good things about this. I haven't done it as I felt it would be harder to keep looking back and forth between them. As an aside, with that many boxes kicking around how are your monitors setup? Do you have a switch or keep a monitor per box?

Do you have any good resource for getting the Server 2000 and SQL Server setup and configured nicely?

>
>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?