Chap 5

The most ubiquitous of application servers are those that providing file and print services.

 

This chapter covered the Distributed File System. (DFS) It is a rather keen system consisting of virtual namespace technology enabling the creation of a unitized directory tree format. This format encompasses the orientations to shared folders located on various file servers over the entire network.

 

File Server Resource Manger provides apparatuses enabling network administrators to monitor and control their server storage and generate reports. These reports are useful in providing the particulars of how a user stores their files.

  Historically the print structure has consisted of a monogamous digital relationship of one printer mated to one computer. Nowadays this printer can be “shared” with other users on the same network. Network attached printers now make the administrator’s primary decision to be which computer will function as the print server.

 

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