2007-01-30 14:54:22 · 5 answers · asked by Anonymous in Computers & Internet ➔ Internet
See Wikipedia:
"a computer system that provides services to other computing systems—called clients—over a computer network. The term server can refer to hardware (such as a Sun computer system) or software (such as an RDBMS server)."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Server_%28computing%29
File servers provide storage and sharing of files, print servers provide printer resources to multiple computers, email servers provide email services to multiple clients, etc...
2007-01-30 14:58:31 · answer #1 · answered by TechNeo 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
A server is a dedicated system for file storage. There is usually no PC associated to it only access ports for outside PC connections.
Think of it this way a server is a filing cabinet and all the info is published from somewhere else.
2007-02-07 20:10:57 · answer #2 · answered by Shannon T 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Specific to the Web, a Web server is the computer program (housed in a computer) that serves requested HTML pages or files. A Web client is the requesting program associated with the user. The Web browser in your computer is a client that requests HTML files from Web servers.
2007-01-30 23:02:20 · answer #3 · answered by Wijssegger 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Look at this site:
http://www.bellevuelinux.org/server.html
2007-02-07 19:56:57 · answer #4 · answered by Cat 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Shannon is right!
2007-02-07 21:04:12 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋