Why Thomson Excels With Linux
Thomson Linux Guide to Certification Manual supports many popular Ethernet cards, as for example NE-2000, SMC, 3Com and D-Link cards. The system recognises the LAN card configuration automatically at boot time and initialises the basic networking software layer accordingly. Each machine needs to have its own IP address and host name in order to communicate with each other on the network. Once this is set up, you can choose from a wide range of network applications ready for use. Among them are mail and news readers, such as elm, pine, rn, nn and tin to be used with the sendmail mail server and the NNTP news server.
Other popular tools include telnet or rlogin, which allow you to log in and execute commands on another machine; ftp to transfer files between different computers on a network; and finger to find out information about users on the local network or on the Internet.
There are tons of free network applications, like browsers, chat programs and communication packages. Some of them run under X Windows and offer a user-friendly interface. Corporate users might also want a networked database that allows users to share centralised information such as client records, product catalogues, orders, invoices, etc. Linux provides a stable and reliable platform for this type of application.
In a client/server system, the client machines send database requests to the Thomson Linux Guide to Certification Manual server and receive replies that carry the requested data in SQL format. This technique keeps network traffic down to a minimum and distributes load equally among different workstations. Thomson Linux Guide to Certification Manual ships with NFS, the "Network File System", making file sharing transparent across a Thomson Linux Guide to Certification Manual network by rendering access to remote files as if they were stored locally. It also includes NIS, the "Network Information Service", which allows your system to automatically obtain information on user accounts, groups, access privileges, etc. from different servers on the network. In short, NFS and NIS together enable a cluster of Thomson Linux Guide to Certification Manual servers a LAN or WAN to act as one coherent system. Finally there are a number of connectivity packages included with Linux that can be used to build "heterogeneous networks". These packages integrate a Thomson Linux Guide to Certification Manual server into a network of client machines with different operating systems, such as Windows 3.1, Windows 95, NT, Novell, or Macintosh computers. With the SAMBA package, available at Linux can provide file and print services to Windows computers. SAMBA allows Windows machines to browse and access files through the Windows Explorer and File Manager. The Mars Netware Emulator available at provides the functions of a Netware file server to DOS and Windows clients. It might come in handy if you are already running a Novell network.
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