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Hi richard, feel free to contact me on 01803 500101. I do this stuff commercially and i'd be glad to offer free advice and guidance to a lug member. neil - Neil Neil Tancock Safeharbour Technology This email has originated from my wireless device. -----Original Message----- From: Richard Brown <rich@xxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: 07 April 2009 07:18 To: list <list@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Subject: [LUG] Networking Hi I believe there are two approaches to building a local area network (lan). The usual approach certainly when using xp etc is to build a workgroup around a cluster of computers all talking to a switch/hub/router. The second approach seems to be around a domain. And it is this approach that I want to try to learn more about. What is it please and how does it work? Does it mean you create a server and then all computers feed of that etc? The reason I am asking is because we are about to purchase several new computers for work and we want to speed the whole network up and also protect it more. All the computers currently log in to a file server and also a database server and I am wondering whether we could also route the internet through the servers to provide additional protection to the network. But we are also looking for speed improvements on accessing data from the database and wonder whether this will help. Many thanks for the help. -- Kind regards Rich http://www.cregy.co.uk Embracing what God does for you is the best thing you can do for him. Romans 12 v 1 -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/linux_adm/list-faq.html -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/linux_adm/list-faq.html