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The Line Printer Daemon protocol/Line Printer Remote protocol (or LPD, LPR) is a network printing protocol for submitting print jobs to a remote printer. The original implementation of LPD was in the Berkeley printing system in the BSD UNIX operating system; the LPRng project also supports that protocol.
In computing, a shared resource, or network share, is a computer resource made available from one host to other hosts on a computer network. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] It is a device or piece of information on a computer that can be remotely accessed from another computer transparently as if it were a resource in the local machine.
In computing, time-sharing is the concurrent sharing of a computing resource among many tasks or users by giving each task or user a small slice of processing time. This quick switch between tasks or users gives the illusion of simultaneous execution. [1] [2] It enables multi-tasking by a single user or enables multiple-user sessions.