Exactly what networking software do people deploy for a small render farm, five or fewer nodes including the master? 1) if all Windows, can you just use the simple peer to peer built into XPHome? And what would the hardware need to be? Ethernet from peer to peer plus an inexpensive hub? Or do you even need a hub? 2) at what point do you need something serious like Win2K Server? ::::: shudder ::::: 3) what about for a mixed network of Macs and PCs? ::::: Opera ::::: (networking novice)