Thank you all for your suggestions, > Before you get all hot and sweaty about fixing a problem, first see > whether you have one. See what load you can accommodate. > > fwiw IBM figured in supporting 100 clients from OS/2 Warp Server on a > Pentium. Remember, a really good Pentium could go as fast as 233 Mhz. > > It's true clients are more demanding these days, but then so can servers > offer more. > > So, see what you can do. Then worry about fixing any problems you can see. Thanks for this. I really have to see first how much my server can handle first. > I am unclear what your definition is for clustering. If you are talking > about clustered storage, Microsoft does have DFS which is supported by > Samba but I don't believe their Desktop OS's (WinXP professional, etc.) > are capable of being anything but a client. I just watched the demo of DFS and think this will exactly do my job but still needs lots of reading to do :-) Thanks again.