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Figure 18-4 Sharing a printer in Windows

No matter how big the network, we use networks to share and access stuff.

This stuff might be Web pages, videos, printers, folders, e-mail messages,

music . . . what you can share and access is limited only by your ability to

find a server program capable of sharing it and a client program that can

access it.

Each type of server gets a label that defines its role. A networked host that

enables you to access a bunch of files and folders is called a file server. The

networked host you use to access e-mail messages? It’s called a mail server.

Truth in advertising!

NOTE Along with common modern servers, you’ll find a lot of legacy and

embedded systems performing very specific, non-modern tasks. A factory

producing a widget, for example, might use a proprietary controller that

works over a network. Even though technically obsolete, that network unit

isn’t broken, so why replace it?

Network people call anything that one computer might share with another

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