enow.com Web Search

Search results

  1. Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
  2. Comparison of distributed file systems - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_distributed...

    In computing, a distributed file system (DFS) or network file system is any file system that allows access from multiple hosts to files shared via a computer network. This makes it possible for multiple users on multiple machines to share files and storage resources.

  3. Distributed File System (Microsoft) - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Distributed_File_System...

    Microsoft's DFS is referred to interchangeably as 'DFS' and 'Dfs' by Microsoft and is unrelated to the DCE Distributed File System, which held the 'DFS' trademark [1] but was discontinued in 2005. It is also called "MS-DFS" or "MSDFS" in some contexts, e.g. in the Samba user space project. [2]

  4. File:Network Architecture Diagram - Distributed Web ...

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Network_Architecture...

    You are free: to share – to copy, distribute and transmit the work; to remix – to adapt the work; Under the following conditions: attribution – You must give appropriate credit, provide a link to the license, and indicate if changes were made.

  5. Network File System - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Network_File_System

    Network File System (NFS) is a distributed file system protocol originally developed by Sun Microsystems (Sun) in 1984, [1] allowing a user on a client computer to access files over a computer network much like local storage is accessed. NFS, like many other protocols, builds on the Open Network Computing Remote Procedure Call (ONC RPC

  6. Andrew File System - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrew_File_System

    The Andrew File System heavily influenced Version 4 of Sun Microsystems' popular Network File System (NFS). Additionally, a variant of AFS, the DCE Distributed File System (DFS) was adopted by the Open Software Foundation in 1989 as part of their Distributed Computing Environment. Finally AFS (version two) was the predecessor of the Coda file ...

  7. Computer network diagram - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer_network_diagram

    A sample network diagram Readily identifiable icons are used to depict common network appliances, e.g. routers, and the style of lines between them indicates the type of connection. Clouds are used to represent networks external to the one pictured for the purposes of depicting connections between internal and external devices, without ...

  8. List of computing and IT abbreviations - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_computing_and_IT...

    NetBIOS—Network Basic Input/Output System; NetBT—NetBIOS over TCP/IP; NEXT—Near-End CrossTalk; NFA—Nondeterministic Finite Automaton; NFC—Near-field communication; NFS—Network File System; NGL—aNGeL; NGSCB—Next-Generation Secure Computing Base; NI—National Instruments; NIC—Network Interface Controller or Network Interface Card

  9. Network Information Service - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Network_Information_Service

    The Network Information Service, or NIS (originally called Yellow Pages or YP), is a client–server directory service protocol for distributing system configuration data such as user and host names between computers on a computer network. Sun Microsystems developed the NIS; the technology is licensed to virtually all other Unix vendors.