Server Machine

[melvin]

We are looking at using one of our emacs as a server machine for the network, the reason for this we are a small design company and at the moment the designers ae storing all their files on their machines and if their drives would to fail we would be loosing all the work and would not be good at all. So we are looking at using one of the Emacs entirely as a file sharing purpose so the designers will grab their working files from the Emac work on them and at the end of the day save them back on the Emac.

At the moment the Emac has the following specs:

Machine Model: eMac
CPU Type: PowerPC G4 (3.3)
Number Of CPUs: 1
CPU Speed: 1 GHz
L2 Cache (per CPU): 256 KB
Memory: 1 GB
Bus Speed: 133 MHz
Hardrive Space = 40GB

At the most there would be 3 machines connecting to it at once, my question would the emac do the job or will it choke, I know emacs were soley made for home users but would it cut the mustard for what we want to do, as for hardrive space would it be better to buy a large 200GB and take out the old 40GB or buy a separate firewire drive, have heard people having heaps of problems with external firewire drives.

Any info of people that have experinced what I am trying to do would be much appreicated.

Cheers

 

[mdnky]

We use an old beige G3 300 (see sig) for file server duties where I work, no problems. It's been running this was since Jan. of this year and hasn't had any major problems yet. The only real problems, minor things really, come from the fact that we have a mixed environment (Win, Linux, Mac) there and it's running )S X 10.1.5 for it's OS. That machine currently handles all files for 3-4 connected users, a web server, and light usage (transfer pictures from SD camera cards, etc.).

An eMac shouldn't have any problems with this at all.