I currently have the following equipment: Dell Dimension 8300 (P-4, 3.0GHz) with 512MB DDR and lots of other good stuff. Win XP Home on one SATA drive (250 GB) and Win XP Pro on the other SATA Drive (160 GB). Dell A940 All in One printer/scanner/copier/fax Dell Dimension 2350 (1.7 GHz Celeron) with 384 MB DDR and not so much good stuff. Win XP Home on a 60 GB regular ATA drive. Dell Dimension L466c (466 MHz Celeron) with 256 MB and no really good stuff. Win98SE on a 40 GB regular ATA drive. Shared Broadband access using cable modem and wired linksys router. One standard flat screen CRT monitor and one digital ultrasharp flat panel monitor. I would like to build a small home network to share everything with everybody... files, printers, scanners etc with the L466c serving primarilly as the server. I want to use a KVM switch to use the keyboard/monitor/mouse of one of the other computers to operate the L466c. The flat panel monitor has both DVI and analog inputs and the capabilty to manually switch between the two. Will a KVM switch work with the flatpanel as long as I remember to manually switch the monitor to the analog input? Can somebody direct me to an easy to read reference that will guide me in setting up the network and making everything accessible to everybody from all three computers. I am not computer illiterate, but I'm not a guru either. I just need a guiding hand to be sure I do things in the right order on the right machine. Can the L466c be configured as an email server also? I'd like to be able to leave it on 24/7 to collect mail for everybody so the other 2 computers can be shut down when not in use. Would that require additional software? Would it work with Outlook Express? Thunderbird? Right now there is one user on each of the computers. If I decide to add additional users, what will be required to allow them total access also? With additional users, when I install new software how do I grant access to all users or just one user but not another user? -- <Please delete this line and everything below.> To unsub or change your email settings: //www.freelists.org/webpage/pctechtalk To access our Archives: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/PCTechTalk/messages/ //www.freelists.org/archives/pctechtalk/ For more info: //www.freelists.org/cgi-bin/list?list_id=pctechtalk