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I work in a small office that has 6 or 7 computers all connected to a central server.
I am pretty proficient with PC's in terms of installing operating systems dealing with hardware and all that.
My boss wants me to become our IT guy because of course it is expensive to have a guy come in to do basic stuff like format a PC.
So I have zero experience dealing with a server. It is in our server room on a rack it is a flat type of server and not just a PC acting as a server. So from the beginning say I were to format a hard drive, then connect the Ethernet for our internet what will happen next?
Will the computer be online with no access the the data stored on the server?
Will the computer require a web key that will then connect me to the internet and server data?
If you are connected to the internet at our office does that tie into the server? Like if you are connected you have access?
All I need to know to be able to start at this job is be able to hook a PC up to the network basically and have it be able to access the data on the server.
Thanks for the help getting me started.
Edit: Even if someone can give me a list of things I need to know before I can get help from here?
I am pretty proficient with PC's in terms of installing operating systems dealing with hardware and all that.
My boss wants me to become our IT guy because of course it is expensive to have a guy come in to do basic stuff like format a PC.
So I have zero experience dealing with a server. It is in our server room on a rack it is a flat type of server and not just a PC acting as a server. So from the beginning say I were to format a hard drive, then connect the Ethernet for our internet what will happen next?
Will the computer be online with no access the the data stored on the server?
Will the computer require a web key that will then connect me to the internet and server data?
If you are connected to the internet at our office does that tie into the server? Like if you are connected you have access?
All I need to know to be able to start at this job is be able to hook a PC up to the network basically and have it be able to access the data on the server.
Thanks for the help getting me started.
Edit: Even if someone can give me a list of things I need to know before I can get help from here?