Prometheus_Fire

Hi marcopolon2,

We all had to start somewhere, hopefully you'll grow to love networking as much as I do (infinitely more than programming).

Microsoft may withdraw my accreditations for this ;-), but in the situation you find yourself, deploying the Windows based platform you've been asked to is insanity and LAMP is a much more prudent option.

I honestly can't think of a sound business reason why anyone would want to try to deploy XP home as a small business production server (Which won't work anyway). It lacks the requisite security and functionality that you'll need and operational costs (while you spend countless hours trying to get things to work which were never supposed to on that platform and firefighting malicious attacks) will demolish any savings the company would make on the initial spend to set the machine up.

XP Pro is a minor step up, but I personally wouldn't want to do business with a company that kept my (or their) personal or financial data on a desktop machine. I'm a little bit zealous about security!

Forgive me, but I found the diagram a little confusing. It would help immensely if you could give me model numbers on the devices you've listed, specifically the Firelli ADSL access device, so that I may do a rough diagram of what you have and can verify if it will do what you need.