Whenever you connect two computers together, either with cables or wirelessly, you have created a computer network. When the computers on the network can work independently of each other, it is ...

Whenever you use an ATM to check your balance or withdraw some money, you are actually participating in a client-server interaction with a computer on your bank's network. A client-server network ...

Peer-to-peer applications are best explained by contrasting with client/server. In client/server applications, like Lotus Notes, clients communicate with each other, but must first connect with the ...

(1) A communications network that uses dedicated servers. In this context, the term is used to contrast it with a peer-to-peer network, which allows any client to also be a server. (2) A network that ...

Old computer systems were very easy to understand. You would simply enter data into your workstation and it would be fed to the mainframe computer. Called a master/slave system, the mainframe master ...

Servers tend to be quite powerful machines. They need the processing power because many other computers connect to them. Clients do not usually store data. Furthermore, they have no control over the ...

Flexible USB sharing over a network enables others on the same network to get remote access to a single external drive. This is done via software that helps emulate all the drive’s contents on the ...

In our testing from the client side, we found that while it’s easy to connect to the Exchange 2007 backend in most cases, it’s not completely without its problems. Exchange 2007 server’s bells and ...

A peek into the existing quality control labs shows that analytical systems are usually configured such that data storage, measurements, and system maintenance are all carried out with the help of a ...