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Glossary

This glossary defines terms and spells out abbreviations you may encounter while

working with online help or the various reference manuals for Mac OS X Server.

References to terms defined elsewhere in the glossary appear in italics.

ACE Access Control Entry. An entry within the ACL that controls access rights. 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.

Active Directory The directory and authentication service of Microsoft Windows 2000

Server, Windows Server 2003, and Windows Server 2003 R2.

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’s 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.

administrator computer A Mac OS X computer onto which you’ve installed the server

administration applications from the Mac OS X Server Admin CD.

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.

Berkeley Internet Name Domain See BIND.

Berkeley Software Distribution See BSD.

BIND Berkeley Internet Name Domain. The program included with Mac OS X Server

that implements DNS. The program is also called the name daemon, or named, when

the program is running.

Bonjour A protocol developed by Apple for automatic discovery of computers,

devices, and services on IP networks. Formerly called Rendezvous, this proposed

Internet standard protocol is sometimes referred to as ZeroConf or multicast DNS.