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Glossary
Glossary
AFP Apple Filing Protocol. A client/server protocol used by Apple file service on
Macintosh-compatible computers to share files and network services. AFP uses TCP/IP
and other protocols to communicate between computers on a network.
access control A method of controlling which computers can access a network or
network services.
access control list See ACL.
ACL Access Control List. A list maintained by a system that defines the rights of users
and groups to access resources on the system.
address A number or other identifier that uniquely identifies a computer on a network,
a block of data stored on a disk, or a location in a computer memory. See also IP
address, MAC address.
administrator A user with server or directory domain administration privileges.
Administrators are always members of the predefined “admin” group.
alias Another email address at your domain that redirects incoming email to an
existing user.
Apple Filing Protocol See AFP.
automount To make a share point appear automatically on a client computer. See also
mount.
bit A single piece of information, with a value of either 0 or 1.
CIFS Common Internet File System. See SMB/CIFS.
client A computer (or a user of the computer) that requests data or services from
another computer, or server.
command line The text you type at a shell prompt when using a command-line
interface.