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Wednesday, February 25, 2009

Components of a LAN

A typical local area network running under Novell NetWare has five basic components that make up the network. These are :
- File Servers
- Network operating system
- Personal Computers, Workstations or Nodes
- Network Interface Cards
- Cabling
(i) File Server - A network file server is a computer system used for the purpose of managing the file system, servicing the network printers, handling network communications, and other functions. A server may be dedicated in which case all of its processing power is allocated to network functions, or it may be non-dedicated which means that a part of the servers functions may be allocated as a workstation or DOS-based system.

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