For Gothic or anyone else running multi-machine setups, I found this in a computing newsgroup:
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You should definitely investigate SME Server. It's a Linux based small
server which works great as a file server, and best of all it's all
web administered so you don't need any knowledge of Linux to use it.

Once it's installed you can setup an Information Bay and use that as a
network drive for all your PCs. Check out www.contribs.org for
download details.

Dai_Nasty

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