Server 2003 Versus Peer To Peer Networking

My server has been happily doing it’s job for the last 2 years.. that is until 3 weeks ago when I got the telephone call you really don’t need on a Saturday morning at 8.30

This particular morning the server developed a fault that was beyond my capability….

So I downloaded the database from the server hard drive and set it up on the reception machine and got them up and running in about 1 hr….

I decided to get some IT guys in… who advised a reinstall… (luckly the data was on a seperate partition on the drive..)

They returned it same day but it was completely dead by Friday!! 2 days after the repair.. the cost of this exercise was £350… (the price of a new server from Dell at the moment)

The moral of this story is that if you can get away with a peer to peer on XP Pro and your not servicing lots of machines, then peer to peer is al ot less grief and cheap to maintain as if you do have to reinstall it only takes an hour or so and you can do it yourself…

Hope this little tale helps you make that decision..

Colm (Former user of windows server 2003)