I have a small company with 2 employees and 4 full-time
contractors. I want to start using Leopard server (running on a
dedicated G5 Powermac with Airport only network)
That last part smells like a very bad idea. For one OS X Server
requires good, real DNS so a WiFi network isolated from any other
network is going to be problematic. Services over WiFi also are going
to perform poorly. And the latency will cause numerous problems. YMMV
but expect it on the "poor" side.
primarily for file sharing, document library, and internal wiki
etc. Not for email, website hosting etc. Will I see any file
sharing performance increase using server over the computer to
computer sharing I use now?
Yes. Not to mention a whole bunch of other features.
At this point Leopard server is not a critical business tool I just
want to keep pushing my knowledge of all things mac. But I also
hope that it will at least help things run a little faster and
smoother. Any other benefits I could expect?
Perhaps reading the docs or tech briefs rather than ask us to
regurgitate them?
In addition, is there a book or website that you can recommend for
non-IT professionals?
Sysadmins are expected to hold a modicum of IT experience. That said
there's this lists FAQ, AFP548, the Apple training series of books,
the O'Reily books and sites -- in fact an awful lot that Google
reports on.
