Server

[Billie Walsh]

Don't know where, or really what, to ask. Yesterday I inherited a nice 
server  but of course they didn't know the password to log in with. Now, 
I know pretty much nothing about running a server so this is going to be 
a learning curve, and maybe another half.

 From what I can tell it's got an Intel server motherboard, three SCSI 
drives in a RAID setup [ I assume hardware RAID by the looks of it but 
I'm not sure how to tell ] with connections for two more, a CD, Floppy 
and tape drive. it runs Windows 2000, if I could get into it. It looks 
like it might have an Intel P3 processor, or at least on of that family. 
Sits on a separate little board that plugs in vertical to the 
motherboard. I haven't pulled out the memory sticks so not sure how much 
it actually has but there's four sticks in place with chips down both sides.

I was really hoping for a turnkey kind of deal to learn how it all 
works. It's beginning to look more and more like I will have to blow it 
and install a new OS. I'm looking at Ubuntu Server if it comes down to 
that, but wonder how much problem I'm going to have getting things like 
RAID to work being a complete newb to such stuff.

We have a static IP from our provider and have been thinking about a 
server for some time to host my web page and some others maybe and just 
a file repository etc for the home network. Not a "BIG" kind of deal really.

Any thoughts or suggestions greatly appreciated.

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