[Tazman]

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One of the keys to succeed in most businesses in America is, unfortunately..you have to realize the totally lazy nature of Americans..so you have to make things super easy for them...like for a baby. If they have to think...its too hard.

Well said .

Yeah, it acts as a file server for the dental database. I picked up the account some 2 years ago when the software company decided to charge $5000 per year for phone technical support and $100 per hour for onsite support. They charged him $50,000 to install 3 500MHz cerleries, network them and install the software .

The actual "server" is the office manager's computer. There are now 4 other work stations attached to it that use the database for all of the practices patient (5000+ patients) info, appointments, etc.

When we had that power failure awhile back, the UPS failed and the last good backup was done two weeks before. That means that any appiontments, patient info, billing, etc was toast .

I now have the network setup with each computer assigned a static ip addie on a workgroup. The only directory shared is the database directory on the server. There are also two network printers hooked up all running through a switch.

For security reasons, there isn't any internet connection into the office and only a modem used for filing claims.

It's a pretty basic small network setup.

Here's a couple of pics of the server.

Mike