Hmm.. when we replaced our servers 3 (4?) years ago, we hung on to the old boxes. They'd been in place for the best part of 5 ~ 6 years, and were just about on their last legs as servers. Both now sit in this office and are used purely for our mini 'test network', regularly getting either Novell or Linux (or one on each) installed on them whilst we try out a few ideas. Its a miracle they managed as well as they did for so long, being well below the necessary processing demands the ever expanding network placed on them. Off hand one is a dual P2-333 based system, and the other is a dual P2-366 based system, one running NW3.1 the other NW4. Certainly not up to the demands of a 350 pc network with 1000+ students! Thankfully its quite easy to upgrade our NW based network, thanks to the wonderful Novell Directory Services. Create a new server (under a new name, admittedly), set up all the services you need / want on it, and then patch it up to the same standard as the rest of the network. Promote it into the tree and leave it for a few hours to let its NDS sync with the network. Using some handy JRBUtilities, mirror the data folders (complete with rights) onto the new server, change the container scripts and viola, one nicely upgraded network with very little downtime.... for safeties sake though we do our upgrades during holiday periods. We trust our server OS, honest... just not quite enough to do an upgrade at a weekend :-)