Hi Everyone, I need the benefit of your wiser and more experienced heads please. I'm acting up as HoD (unpaid, alas) and I've managed to talk the senior DH into giving me some money. I've been given up to £7K to do away from a room full of equipment. The current room has 25 i333MHZ PCs, on 10MB BNC. network is a queer mix of 2 x Novell 3.12 servers, with an NT proxy & Wins server. The clients run under Win98. I was telling the boss about how old kit could recycled using a thin client and he said if I can get the job done for £7K, I can go ahead. He would like to be able to free up 12 machines to re-distributed around the school. Obviously I'd like to get a Linux box in there as the main server for the thin client end. Now, I could go down the Citrx route - if I can ever afford the licences, but what about having another server and using VNC, VMWare or even Wine. But I haven't got any experience with any of it, apart from the 30 days when I ran VMWare on my own SuSE machine. Can I do the job with only £7K: new server, CAT5 cabling, (thin client) licences, probably more memory for each machine, new NICs and so on. Any ideas or advice would be very gratefully received. If I do a good job then there's a small showcase for other schools in the LEA, the bosses get to swank at other schools' bosses about what the school's done, SuSE gets to sell my school a half-price copy of v7.0 ;-) and maybe I increase my chances of a permanent FT position in January 2001. TIA Paul Hornshaw