In computing, a file server is a computer attached to a network that has the primary purpose of providing a location for shared disk access, i.e. shared storage of computer files (such as documents, sound files, photographs, movies, images, databases, etc.) that can be accessed by the workstations that are attached to the same computer network. The term server highlights the role of the machine in the client–server scheme, where the clients are the workstations using the storage. A file server is not intended to perform computational tasks, and does not run programs on behalf of its clients. It is designed primarily to enable the storage and retrieval of data while the computation is carried out by the workstations. Continue reading
Category Archives: Operating Systems
[Windows] Manage user from command prompt
To add a new user, or manage an existed user, you can do it in Control Panel – User and Accounts. But, you can also do it from command prompt. Make sure that you’ve Administrator privilege (Run as Administrator). Here we go : Continue reading
[Windows] Change file/folder attribute with command prompt
In Windows, there’re three file attributes. These are arvhive, hidden, and system. Here, I’m not going to tell you these attributes mean (you can find it on internet), but i will tell you how to change file/folders attributes. Here we go : Continue reading
[Windows] Create new text-file from command prompt without Notepad
I will show you how to create a text-file using command prompt. We usually use text programs such as notepad to do this task, but this can also be done using command prompt. Here we go : Continue reading
[Windows] Basic file management commands using command prompt
How to create dual-booting in VirtualBox
Hello, this is another post of my course. Today, i will tell you how to create a dual-booting OS in VirtualBox. The dualboot that i’m going to explain is Windows-Linux. It is so simple. If you ever do dual-booting in real, you can do it in virtualization Continue reading