Linux server, 1 Leopard Mac, 2 Tiger mac and a Windows machine: Should I?

I am a photographer, my wife an audio producer. I am a Mac person - she has a Windows machine. We work at home and want to install an ethernet network and use a Linux server to serve up and share files accross the network.
We are both very proficient at running our respective operating systems on our own machines but have no experience working with or administering a server or a network. I am going to pay someone to help me wire up the house with gigabit Ethernet cabling and install the server and Linux server software.
I am a photographer and want to spend my time doing the things photographers do - eg not fiddling around getting a server to work and our computers to connect. I want a system that is just going to work once it is installed. I don't want to have to pay someone to come and help me when something goes wrong.
How do I know if I am getting in over my head here?

If neither of you are well versed in Linux, then why would you want to install a Linux server? That makes no sense to me. Why wouldn't you just install a Mac or Windows server?
*"How do I know if I am getting in over my head here?"*
There's no way anyone here can answer that question. While you say you're both proficient in your respective operating systems, we still have no way of knowing how proficient you are because we are not you. Only you can make that assessment and decision.

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