What do most small business....

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The place i used to work for experience (before i landed a full time ) used to have a fairly heavy duty set-up.

i.e general serval for files, e-mail and web server. There were around 25 workstations in that office not including remote sites.

So, what would be a typical set-up in a small office of say 8-10 workstations....

 

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Hi Boyce,

I guess it depends on the nature of the business the company is in as well as the size of the operation.

Most companies will have numerous domain controllers, file servers, backup solutions, print servers etc... but for a company with only 8-10 workstations I am not sure

 

Oh, as i thought. It really depends on the nature of the business and the amount of users...

 

There is no definitive answer to your question Boyce. That is the reason real world experience is so important.

They could for example be running in a Windows workgroup i.e. peer to peer, no actual dedicated servers. The users would all use POP3 to download their emails.

Or, as is very common here on The Gold Coast, they could use SBS, it really packs a lot into a single box, DC, DNS, DHCP, Exchange, ISA, Active Directory, WINS, RRAS, Sharepoint services, TS etc.

Or you could find them running Mentor Pro (a Unix like OS) and PicLan (a weird NOS) as well as Netware servers

Or they may be running Unix or Linux.

Or they could be running all Macs

As I have said many times, networking is a can of worms, once you take the lid off and have a look, it can be really complicated. That is why we have to specialise and we have to know people that know stuff the we don't.

 

In my opinion I think it would.

If the company was CAD based for example you would want servers with bigger disk pools etc to hold the data and higher spec machines, where as as a company that used basic office programs you could use a thin client solution to cut down on cost.

This is just my opinion though!

Networks have such a wide range of options