Resurrecting an Old Server

angelavdavis

I have an old HP server that previously was loaded with Windows NT.

I am looking at loading it with something like SME server and loading a web site onto it.

It is connected to the internet through my router at home.

I am pretty IT literate, having worked in the industry for a few years, but thin clients and servers are a new thing for me.... Can anyone recommend a web site or book to get me started?? Having googled, I have been inundated.

Thanks

unrich

You can do it for free with a different SME from the windows one.
http://www.smeserver.org/

This is a linux distro that provides most server functions in an easy to administer form.

The other one I would try is perhaps Damn Small Linux/Ubuntu and putting XAMPP http://www.apachefriends.org/en/xampp-windows.html

Thin client computing is stuff like citrix. I don't know much about it.
But

The original thin clients were dumb terminals. The computing done on the server. Big Unix servers and cheap terminals. They went out of fashion.

Then the internet happened.
Big LINUX servers doing the processing and cheap PC's and browsers.


XAMPP may work on NT have a llok at the site.