Part III-2. NETWORK FILE AND RESOURCE SHARING PROTOCOLS
To the typical end user, networks were created for one main reason: to permit the sharing of information. Most information on computers exists in the form of files that reside on storage devices such as hard disks; thus, one primary purpose of networks is to let users share files. File transfer and message transfer protocols allow users to manually move files from one place to the next, but a more automated method is preferable in many cases. Internetworking protocols provide such capabilities in the form of network file and resource sharing protocols.
In this brief part, I describe network file and resource sharing protocols from the standpoint of TCP/IP networks. The one chapter ...
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