Have a friend who has a business who has nine total computers in their business. An IT person recommended a server and installed a 2003 XP server. All their computer's are operating on different platforms for example xp, xp professional and windows 7 home premium. They only use this server for a shared folder for storage. They have had issues with accessing their shared folder lately and since there a a large amount of factors, I think that installing a server only complicated their operation.
My question is wouldn't it be easier to install a NAS drive, network all the computers to it since all they use it for anyway is storage? and if so, what is the best way to migrate the data from the server to the NAS drive, is there a certain program that he needs to be aware of. I would hate to see him get ripped off either by putting a bandaid on this problem so to speak, or fix it once and for all but do it the best way possible. Any advice would be helpful.
My question is wouldn't it be easier to install a NAS drive, network all the computers to it since all they use it for anyway is storage? and if so, what is the best way to migrate the data from the server to the NAS drive, is there a certain program that he needs to be aware of. I would hate to see him get ripped off either by putting a bandaid on this problem so to speak, or fix it once and for all but do it the best way possible. Any advice would be helpful.