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Computer network supports various number of services like file, print
services,application service, database service,communication/messging service and
security service, Here we discuss all the services in short.
((1] File services :
File services enable networked computers to share files with each other This
capability was one of the primary reasons networking of personal computers
initially came about. (File services include all getwork functions dealing with the
storage, retrieval, or movement of data files!File services énable users to read,
write, and manage files and data, This includes moving files between computers
and archiving files and data.
File services are an important part of client/server and peer-to-peer networks.
Computers providing files services are referred to as file servers.
º Two types of servers available:
Dedicated and non-dedicated. Dedicated servers do nothing but fulfill requests to
network clients.] These server commonly are found in client/server
environments.Non-dedicated servers do double duty. They enable .a user to go
onto the machine acting as a file server and request the use of. files from other
machines; at the same time, they give files to users who request them from other
computers on the network.

2]Printing Services :
After file services, printing is probably the second biggest incentivefor installing a
LAN.
The following are some of the many advantages of network print services:
-(Many users can shar the same printers. This capability is especially useful with
expensive devices such as color printers and plotters.J
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8}Application Services : applications to network.!
that are specialized
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4] Database Services: common type of application
the most designed in separate client
Database servers are applications to be
’ Because database services enable
applications frequently are called client/server
and server components, such
databases. and server applications are designed to
database. the client systems,
With a client/server specialized capabilities of client and database
take advantage of the data input from the user, generation of screen
application manages requests sent to the database
’ The client and dataretrieval
displays, some of the reporting,
modifies
files; adds, deletes, and
server.
manages the database
The database server database and generates the results required
records in the database; queries the
results back to the client.
by the client; and transmits
for multiple clients at the same time.|
The database server can service requests
modern database server is a sophisticated piece of software that can
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perform the following functions:
’ Provide database security.
Optimize the performance of database operations.
Determine optimum locations for storing data without requiring clients to kno"
where the data is located.
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Service large numbers of clients by reducing the amount of time any one
spends accessing the database.
Distribute data across multiple database servers.
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, J5] Messaging/Communication Services: place to
services generally transfer information from one
Messaging/communication
another.
be broken down into three
This communication of information can
subareas :
(1) Email (2) Voice mail (3) Fax services

(1) Email :
a local workgroup to a
Emaul systems can serviçe any size group from devices, you can transfer
corporation to the world By installing email routing
mail smoothly and efficiently among several LANs.
This enables users in.
Email also can be routed to and received from the Internet! messages
dozens of countries throughout the world to exchange electronic
that support
Early text-based email. has given way to elaborate systems
embedded sound, graphics, and even video data.
Exchange Server, Novell's
Someof the major email packages include Microsoft's
Group Wise, and Lotus Notes.
|(2) Voice Mail : to
(Voice nmail enables you to connect your computer to a telephone system andfor
technical term
incorporate telephone voicemail messages with your PC:|The
this is telephony. This often involves moving.
Your voicemail messages from the phone system to the LAN and enabling the
computer network to distribute this information to different clients
|(3) Fax Services :
Fax services enable you to send or receive faxes from your computer. This is
simiBar to printing in that your can "print" the document to a fax device. Fax
services, however, can take on more complicated.
Features including the cap ability to send faxes to a central fax server and to
receive faxes from the phone system to a central fax device. That device then
delivers the fax message to your PC. This all occurs Automatically.

(i6] ’Security Services :

Another service provided
by networks is security. Security is one of the most
important elements involved in a network.
’ When users share resources and data on a network, they should be able to
control who can access the
Data or resource and what the user can do with it) An example of this is a file
showing the financial records of a company. If this il is on a file server, it is
important to be able to control who has access to the file.
’ Security services often deal with a user account database or something like the
aforementioned directory services[This database of users often contains a list of
names and passwords.
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to access the security guard
Ynen a person wants trying toenter an office building with a
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you can enter the building, you must verify who you
at the front door. Before allowed access.
against a list of people who areintermingled with other services. Some services
Security services often are which
network can utilize the security services of the system onto
added to a Server. This
of this is Microsoft Exchange Windows
they have been installed. An example NT
can utilizo the security services of an existing
messaging product
Server.