Benefits of SBS for small network?

Hi All, I'm helping my brother-in-law set up a network for his office,
and I have a quick question. He has a 4 user network, and their only
needs are file storage and printer sharing. Their website and email
are with a web host. Someone sold them a Poweredge with SBS2003 on it.
No one in the office is familiar with server administration so they're
having difficulty maintaining it. My thought is that they don't need
the server. I'm considering recommending something like the Seagate
Mirra or Maxtor Shared Server to make administration easier for them.
Its unlikely that they'll do a lot of growing within the next couple
of years. Before I make this recommendation, is there any benefit of
SBS that I'm overlooking?

Thanks,
Chris

Lenwood <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:
> Hi All, I'm helping my brother-in-law set up a network for his office,
> and I have a quick question. He has a 4 user network, and their only
> needs are file storage and printer sharing. Their website and email
> are with a web host. Someone sold them a Poweredge with SBS2003 on it.
> No one in the office is familiar with server administration so they're
> having difficulty maintaining it. My thought is that they don't need
> the server. I'm considering recommending something like the Seagate
> Mirra or Maxtor Shared Server to make administration easier for them.
> Its unlikely that they'll do a lot of growing within the next couple
> of years. Before I make this recommendation, is there any benefit of
> SBS that I'm overlooking?
>
> Thanks,
> Chris

Hi - I believe you have replies to your identical post in another group. In
the future, please don't multipost - if you need to post to multiple groups,
it's best to crosspost instead, by posting a single message to a handful of
relevant groups (separate the NG names with commas) so that everyone can
follow the thread. Multiposting wastes everyone's time, including yours, and
may lead to your actually getting *less* help rather than more.

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