File Servers, what are they?
Provide a shared disk for software applications or user data
- Essentially a “disk on a wire”
- All the processing is done on the clients, not the server
In the PC world file servers typically run an operating system such as NetWare or Windows NT. In the Mac world there are “AppleShare” servers.
- While there are many differences in the precise capabilities of each, essentially they all provide a “disk on a wire” type of functionality