I am planning to set up a pc which will be part of my home network (I'm going to use a Compaq Deskpro SFF due to it's size and being almost silent). It will act as a printserver and a home for all my music and video so that any of the other pc's on my home network can access it for music/video and printing. I want this new pc to be hidden out of the way (in a cupboard) and if I need to do any work on it I want to be able to access it remotely - ie for updating virus definitions and MS updates (i don't plan on having a monitor or keyboard/mouse connected to it).
All the pc's on my home network (including this one) are runing XP Pro except one of the kids PC's which is running XP home.
What is the best way to set this new PC up? Is the remote access feature is XP suitable for allowing me to administor the pc?
What's the best software to use to allow every pc to browse/play the music files on the central PC? All the music is in mP3 format and I'd like to use something that allows searches to be done using the ID3 tags. I've got 2 fairly young kids (5 and 8) so something uncomplicated is ideally what they need to use.
Any inputs welcome, especially if someone has done something similar to this.


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