In addition to the PCs, you need a few extra parts: the ethernet connection, the TCP/IP software (Chameleon is a popular one), Web server software (WinHTTPD is a fairly powerful port of the NCSA server), and a lot of patience.
If it wasn't for the fact that the world has more spare PC's around than any other breed of computer, I'd advise you to stay away from this option. Infoworld's Paul Merenbloom, author of their LAN Talk column, seems to think differently, and devoted two columns to setting up a local Web site with three machines running Windows for Workgroups, in the May 22 and May 29, 1995 issues. He's got a lot of valuable hints there worth exploring.
Microsoft has liked to claim that Windows 95 will be a better place for these kinds of operations, and I suspect that at least (someday) it will be more stable than the current Windows versions, but right now I'd stay away. After all, Microsoft is pushing Windows NT pretty heavily for exactly this work.
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