Christoph, just a suggestion with the Windows IIS: You don't Have to use it. There are some very good solutions out there, if ASP and Frontpage are the only reason. The FrontPage extensions are available for Apache since years, so actual they are running w/o bigger problems. I don't know about the security, but - hey - you want to run an IIS.... ;) For ASP there are some tools around and AFAIK a module for Apache too. I personally prefer the Halcyoon Instant ASP. It's not for free, but it provides a nearly complete Support for all kinds of ASP's. However, the better way for the near future might be to switch to PHP for scriptings.
4. Windows attached to the internet? If not a must for some reason, don't do it. Windows is expensive in any way. The problem is that our administrator doesn't know much about Linux, and we have to use Windows as a Webserver because the pupils use Frontpage and ASP for their projects (I know that's lame, but I can't change that, sorry.)
Just my 2 cents... Cheers, Ralf * * Ralf 'coko' Koch * mailto:info@formel4.de * --- Gute Nachricht: Windows 2000 ist 100% kompatibel. Die weltweit besten Forscher suchen nur noch, womit.