Labels:awning | book | bulletin board | car | chair | crt screen | hakham | house | laptop | monitor | mouse | sky | stairs | stairway OCR: LANS AND WLANS 249 CLIENTS SERVERS AND PEERS What is the difference between network client and server? Network devices can function as clients or as servers server com- puter that provides services to other computers called clients. For example an application server runs application software for network workstations. A file server stores files and supplies them to workstations on request print server handles jobs sent to network printers. Servers are often dedicated to the task they perform which means they are not assigned to users as workstations Computers can be configured per- form both functions at the same time but will not perform optimally in either role Networks that include one o more servers can operate in client/server mode which you can envision as hierarchical structure with ...
