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Originally Posted by devicenull
I've got a question, and please don't take this the wrong way.
Why did you choose mac's? You've already said that anyone wishing to use this now needs a seperate piece of software installed. What's wrong with setting up a normal 802.11 access point? I'm in no way a mac expert (The last one I used was.. 5th grade), but I'm assuming it has a standard ethernet port. You could easily connect this to a access point, and eliminate the entire software aspect. It just seems like a waste to me to have that extra software running.
Also, if its running as say.. a php app under apache, the operating system really doesn't matter.
One last thing. If you are going to be installing stuff on multiple computers, don't use a flash drive. All it takes is for one person to have a virus, and you have basically infected everyone there.
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Actually, the piece of software is in no way required. I am in no way an expert with web servers, and cannot get FCGI working... I am now on my 3rd webserver that I am trying... I think im missing a configuration somewhere on all of them. If I dont get it working this time im going to nuke a computer i have laying around and experament with Apache's mod_ruby, which should decrease server load and runtime.
The reason we chose to use a mac as the hub is because of all of the benifits that using a mac provide. For example, setting up an Ad-Hoc network is no more then 1 click away from any wireless enabled mac's desktop. I actually appreciate you asking, the software I am suggesting (but in no way demanding) people install is Bonjour for Windows, an implementation of Zero Conf, which lets any computer with it installed access any other computer with it installed by simply typing <computer name>.local into any application which would normally accept an IP. firstaid.local is much more simple then 169.254.212.64, don't you think?
Also, thank you for your word of advice on the installation of the software, I plan on burning it onto a couple of CD's, probly with default code and this years version of the compiler and all... the software is a couple megs... and its not like some godawful Linksys application that constantly blinks in the taskbar, I believe it is a simple configuration file that when installed does some magic to make windows do all the work instead of having an application sit as a proxy between your computer and the outside world.
So as I said, its not required, but its certainly one of the better things that could be added to any windows installation.
(PS: Sorry for the long post, I wanted to answer all of your questions thoroughly)