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Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. nach der Bestellung gedruckt Neuware - Printed after ordering - Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articlesavailable from Wikipedia or other free sources online. In computing, afile server is a computer attached to a network that has the primarypurpose of providing a location for shared disk access, i.e. sharedstorage of computer files (such as documents, sound files, photographsmovies, images, databases, etc.) that can be accessed by theworkstations that are attached to the computer network. The term serverhighlights the role of the machine in the client-server scheme, wherethe clients are the workstations using the storage. A file server isusually not performing any calculations, and does not run any programson behalf of the clients. It is designed primarily to enable the rapidstorage and retrieval of data where the heavy computation is provided bythe workstations.…