designing a system is to anticipate the addition of moreworkstations and eventually more users. By considering this now many problems can be solvedeven before they exist. If there is room allotted for expansion in the beginning, then actuallyimplementing the new ideas and hardware should be simple. Assumptions about how large the system will actually get and how many users it will accomodate are very serious issues thatneed to be addressed in the utmost fashion. These questions require serious answers that if notdealt with could destroy a system. Another key issue that needs to be addressed is who will be issued an account on the system.Certainly each CIS faculty member will have his or her own personal account. In these accountssome items such as personal research materials and grades will reside. Then there is the matter ofthe individual CIS classes and individual CIS students. Logically each class will have a separateaccount because the information in each account will be different (applications etc.). The mainpoint of concern is the applications involved with each class. Using Visual Basic and Visual/IFPSPlus, having a COBOL compiler to run your programs on and so on. CIS students will have their own personal account. A space will reserved for them toexecute e-mail and other personal things. They will need to have a good understanding of thenetwork to be able change their directory to the class that they need to locate and do their work in. Each faculty member willhave their own account as well. They will be able to send e-mail to students and also puthomework in the accounts of the classes that they teach. Other faculty members will not haveaccess to the server. As stated before the main purpose of the server is to deliver CISinformation only and for the CIS discipline only. The main points of concern when dealing with the printer configuration are reliability andaccessibility. Reliability is centered around qualit...
