Bill,
Heavens no. P2P is just fine. Again, to each his own. While I like a true server/client with a server computer and operating system, I used peer to peer for six years at my last office. Remember, you can have a "real" server and OS and still be peer to peer -- depends on your setup.
You could use just the number of PCs you need and even use one of them for the database. Adam and I are just letting you know the "risk/benefit" of this. I would look at it this way in order overall best way to do it:
P2P with one of the workstations running as the database "server."
P2P with a dedicated "server."
A true domain.
You can always move up.
Please don't take all of our posts to mean you HAVE to use a Dell Edge 2900 with ten hard drives in a RAID10 configuration with two dual-core processors and 64GBs of RAM on a 64 bit OS.
Three workstations each with 1GB of RAM is plenty, possibly going with 2GBs of RAM on the database machine. RAM is cheap and so is harddrive space. But, you can ask Adam, I ran my network on a HP server with 1GB of RAM for six months. To be honest, while I would never go under 4GBs of RAM which SBS2003 32 bit OS only "sees" as 3.2GBs of RAM again, I could hardly tell the difference.
