From: Richard B. 

On Wed, 02 Mar 2005 08:39:52 GMT, John Beckett
 wrote:

>Good idea, but there's no Free Lunch. Your trick is to install NT4 as a
>BDC on the new box. NT4 has to work ok on the motherboard (should be no
>problem) *and* the NIC. I would take a lot of time to try this. Install
>NT4 simply as a server on the new box for practice and to see if you will
>hit any big problems. Then do another NEW install on the same box, this
>time as a BDC.

Yep, those are points definitely worth considering.  Since this is a new
machine I can do whatever testing I need for hardware compatibility.

>One problem you will have is that if you are using IDE drives and have a
>large drive, you might need to do some funky stuff to have NT4 install
>(you have to upgrade the disk drivers during the install).

It will be a SCSI array, either 1 or 5.

>If your domain is critical, you should spend a WEEK or more studying the
>Microsoft documentation (as per Rich's advice).

Well it is to us since a users who show up for work need to download their
wav files to send out to all their friends.   With the remote
office, it concerns me more if I have trouble that affects them as they
have a higher whine spl.

- Richard

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