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Yeah on your client you can have XP sinc with a number of them threw out the world. As for a server well. the only thing I have seen it good for is on a local network. IE you want to push out updates and so forth to all the machines at the same time. Other then that, its somewhat useless. You can use the server for so much more. Me personnally depending on what OS it has. If its an MS os I would place WUS on it. You can search it on MS. its free. What it will do is download all of the MS patches and push them out to your home machines. Now that sounds like some overkill. but in fact its not. If you have 4 or 5 machines in your house all going to MS for updates that is going to kill your pipe in the house. But if you have just 1 box getting the updates and then pushing it to your machines that just one box taking down the update. It's basicly windows update in your home. But the Time server would help that. Also can do the same thing with your symantec by placing it on the server and having all your virus defs in a central location and your machines would look to that spot of the defs. anyway going to far with this. good luck on it jim, if its just a file server for streaming music I would not even bother with installing it.
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