OK I need some help here with a server setup.

I have some financial limitations so if I can piece this together from spare parts it would be a good thing. doesn't have to be state of the art it simply needs to do the following

500g + drive space (easy enough)
Compatible with Vista, XP, Mac
Network print capabilities
and of course cost

Can't affor to buy a fancy schmancy server setup so this is to get us by for the next year or so until things balance out a bit better.

So what ya got as a suggestion?

 

Go buy some junker computer, upgrade the processor and ram and hard drive space. Slap Apache on there and there you go

 

Yeah, if it is just a server for file storage and print abilities... no hard core processing... any old P3 or P4 set up with as much RAM as the motherboard can take and a big hard drive will be fine.

 

OK I know nothing about Apache and setting it up, plus we are using an HP printer if that makes any difference...sooo how user friendly is Apache for a guy who has never been hardcore geek but dabbled in it (I have been drafted as the IT guy h: )