[emil]

My office (less than 10 people) is looking to switch to a mac server, entirely for internal filesharing (and backing up, obviously) - nothing related to hosting. I am thinking we could probably just get away with another OS X install, and that we woudln't really benefit from much that OS X server has to offer. Thoughts?

Also, if I did go with OS X for the server OS instead of OS X Server, how woudl I go about configuring the user accounts/shares so that everyone could mount the same share? How do you even define a share mount point in OS X that both Samba and Appletalk users can access (we have a few windows machines on the network)?

[gorickey]

If you want the ease of mounting and setting up Share Points, configurability of users, and yet have the same power of OS X that you are used to....go with the OS X Server 10-client license software.

[Arkham_c]

OSX should be fine for your needs. Save the $900, download a free copy of SharePoints , and have a ball.