Natalie,
Assuming that your intended use is internal only, then this is relatively simple to achieve.
Windows server will run on most PCs and there is plenty of free documentation around that would guide you through configuration. utilisation of a basic wireless router (free with most internet connections) would give you the network capability of connecting far more PCs that you wish to.
A Network shared drive ( be that inside your server machine, connected externally or indeed on another machine entirely ) would give you the ability to store and share you digitised images and also enable you to configure whatever collections management software you use to look at this shared drive for its data. This would also enable you to increase the size of the shared drive in the future and retain the same drive letter.
management of this setup would be minimal and i would suggest that from scratch to build all of your machines to work in this way would take one person, no more that half a day to achieve. (on average it takes one hour to build a machine from scratch)
I hope that my post is of some use to you?
regards,
Arran
On 2 Dec 2013, at 11:52, Lisa Chapman <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> Servers for Small Organisation Undertaking Digitsation Project
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