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Win7 Ultimate as File Server: few issues
I'm redoing my whole network here and liberating one machine which I'll sell on c'list or ebay. The system I've been using as daily driver is an older P4 3.4ghz machine that gives excellent service but for my personal use I've moved to a netbook/notebook.
I want the old desktop, which has Ultimate x64 and as much disk as need be, to serve the whole network as file store/retrieve. I have a few questions:
- Power-saving. Will the system awake from sleep via a request from the LAN? is there anything I need to do to enable this or should it "just work"?
- Security: the way I imagine this will work is simply that that machine owns its own homegroup, and the others must join it by inputting the correct password. Otherwise, the network is a couple of dd-wrt routers bridged to form one common AP, with some clients cabled and others not. access to the routers is protected. What other security measures should I take?
- I should have first mentioned that the clients here are the usual mix: some xp home, [one actually], xpp, win7 home premium, and once in awhile a visiting Vista. a few cellphones/handsets thrown in for good measure
- I'm fuzzy as to how printing might work. I know how ignorant this sounds, but if I pop open a file that physically resides on the 'server's volume, edit it, and print, is the spooler handling the job the remote one and if so must all clients then have the particular printer driver loaded? is there a way to force the server to handle the print job if this is not the norm?
I would rather not RAS in to that machine as it just opens another security issue that I'd have to manage....
thanks for your advice
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