Why a switch? And reading a couple of your links, they seem to imply
that
the MAC has to give it's address to the PC.. What if the LAN is 2 PC's
and 4 MAC's?
Last but not least, can you give me a link on Samba?
<school project ;[D
I prefer a switch instead of a hub because switches are "intelligent"
and route traffic to the computer where it is supposed to go. Hubs are
dumb and send traffic to everything.
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=difference+between+hub+and+switch&btnG=Google+Search
It doesn't matter how many computers are on the lan and it doesn't
matter what operating systems are on the lan. All machines can share
files/folders if set up properly. My home lan has various flavors of
Windows, SUSE 10.1 machines, and has had an OS X iMac. Since you are
not going to use DHCP (no router, no DHCP server) you will assign
static IP's to all machines.
You really need to learn to use Google for your school project.
http://us2.samba.org/samba/
But you'll do better just reading the Mac's Help files.
Malke