Well, this was the chapter that did it. I "pulled the trigger" and set up a server on an old box on my home network. I haven't done much with it yet, but there you go.
Anyway, this chapter dealt with file and print services. I learned about hard and soft limits on storage, permissions for various groups with respect to stored files and DFS. Neat stuff. The chapter also covered print services, which is probably the most useful and practical (if not the most fun) thing I can do with a server at home. The chapter gave me a new appreciation for just what an unholy nightmare it must be for people who write software for printers, because the process of simply printing a document travels through a lot more sub-components of the OS than I had originally thought.
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