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+<!DOCTYPE glossary PUBLIC "-//Samba-Team//DTD DocBook V4.2-Based Variant V1.0//EN" "http://www.samba.org/samba/DTD/samba-doc">
+<glossary>
+ <title>Glossary</title>
+
+ <glossentry>
+ <glossterm>Access Control List</glossterm>
+ <acronym>ACL</acronym>
+ <glossdef><para>
+ A detailed list of permissions granted to users or groups with respect to file and network resource access.
+ See <link linkend="AccessControls"/>,
+ for details.</para></glossdef>
+ </glossentry>
+
+ <glossentry>
+ <glossterm>Active Directory Service</glossterm>
+ <acronym>ADS</acronym>
+ <glossdef><para>
+ A service unique to Microsoft Windows 200x servers that provides a centrally managed
+ directory for management of user identities and computer objects, as well as the permissions
+ each user or computer may be granted to access
+ distributed network resources. ADS uses Kerberos-based
+ authentication and LDAP over Kerberos for directory access.
+ </para></glossdef>
+ </glossentry>
+
+ <glossentry>
+ <glossterm>Common Internet File System</glossterm>
+ <acronym>CIFS</acronym>
+ <glossdef><para>The new name for SMB. Microsoft renamed the
+ SMB protocol to CIFS during the Internet hype in the nineties.
+ At about the time that the SMB protocol was renamed to CIFS, an
+ additional dialect of the SMB protocol was in development.
+ The need for the deployment of the NetBIOS layer was also
+ removed, thus paving the way for use of the SMB protocol natively
+ over TCP/IP (known as NetBIOS-less SMB or <quote>naked</quote> TCP transport).
+ </para></glossdef>
+ </glossentry>
+
+ <glossentry>
+ <glossterm>Common UNIX Printing System</glossterm>
+ <acronym>CUPS</acronym>
+ <glossdef><para>
+ A recent implementation of a high capability printing system for UNIX developed by
+ <ulink url="http://www.easysw.com/"></ulink>. The design objective of CUPS was to provide
+ a rich print processing system that has built-in intelligence capable of correctly rendering (processing)
+ a file that is submitted for printing even if it was formatted for an entirely different printer.
+ </para>
+ </glossdef>
+ </glossentry>
+
+ <glossentry>
+ <glossterm>Domain Master Browser</glossterm>
+ <acronym>DMB</acronym>
+ <glossdef><para>The domain master browser maintains a list of all the servers that
+ have announced their services within a given workgroup or NT domain. See <link linkend="DMB"/> for details.
+ </para></glossdef>
+ </glossentry>
+
+ <glossentry>
+ <glossterm>Domain Name Service</glossterm>
+ <acronym>DNS</acronym>
+ <glossdef><para>
+ A protocol by which computer hostnames may be resolved to the matching IP address/es. DNS is implemented
+ by the Berkeley Internet Name Daemon. There exists a recent version of DNS that allows dynamic name registration
+ by network clients or by a DHCP server. This recent protocol is known as dynamic DNS (DDNS).
+ </para></glossdef>
+ </glossentry>
+
+ <glossentry>
+ <glossterm>Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol</glossterm>
+ <acronym>DHCP</acronym>
+ <glossdef><para>
+ A protocol that was based on the BOOTP protocol that may be used to dynamically assign an IP address,
+ from a reserved pool of addresses, to a network client or device. Additionally, DHCP may assign all
+ network configuration settings and may be used to register a computer name and its address with a
+ dynamic DNS server.
+ </para></glossdef>
+ </glossentry>
+ <glossentry>
+ <glossterm>Extended Meta-file Format</glossterm>
+ <acronym>EMF</acronym>
+ <glossdef>
+ <para>
+ An intermediate file format used by Microsoft Windows-based servers and clients. EMF files may be
+ rendered into a page description language by a print processor.
+ </para>
+ </glossdef>
+ </glossentry>
+
+ <glossentry>
+ <glossterm>Graphical Device Interface</glossterm>
+ <acronym>GDI</acronym>
+ <glossdef><para>
+ Device-independent format for printing used by Microsoft Windows.
+ It is quite similar to what PostScript is for UNIX. Printing jobs are first generated in GDI and
+ then converted to a device-specific format. See <link linkend="gdipost"/> for details.
+ </para></glossdef>
+ </glossentry>
+
+ <glossentry>
+ <glossterm>Group IDentifier</glossterm>
+ <acronym>GID</acronym>
+ <glossdef><para>
+ The UNIX system group identifier; on older systems, a 32-bit unsigned integer, and on newer systems
+ an unsigned 64-bit integer. The GID is used in UNIX-like operating systems for all group-level access
+ control.
+ </para></glossdef>
+ </glossentry>
+
+ <glossentry>
+ <glossterm>Internet Print Protocol</glossterm>
+ <acronym>IPP</acronym>
+ <glossdef><para>An IETF standard for network printing. CUPS
+ implements IPP.</para></glossdef>
+ </glossentry>
+
+ <glossentry>
+ <glossterm>Key Distribution Center</glossterm>
+ <acronym>KDC</acronym>
+ <glossdef><para>The Kerberos authentication protocol makes use of security keys (also called a ticket)
+ by which access to network resources is controlled. The issuing of Kerberos tickets is effected by
+ a KDC.</para></glossdef>
+ </glossentry>
+
+ <glossentry>
+ <glossterm>NetBIOS Extended User Interface</glossterm>
+ <acronym>NetBEUI</acronym>
+ <glossdef><para>
+ Very simple network protocol invented by IBM and Microsoft. It is used
+ to do NetBIOS over Ethernet with low overhead. NetBEUI is a nonroutable
+ protocol.
+ </para></glossdef>
+ </glossentry>
+
+ <glossentry>
+ <glossterm>Network Basic Input/Output System</glossterm>
+ <acronym>NetBIOS</acronym>
+ <glossdef><para>
+ NetBIOS is a simple application programming interface (API) invented in the 1980s
+ that allows programs to send data to certain network names.
+ NetBIOS is always run over another network protocol such
+ as IPX/SPX, TCP/IP, or Logical Link Control (LLC). NetBIOS run over LLC
+ is best known as NetBEUI (NetBIOS Extended User Interface &smbmdash; a complete misnomer!).
+ </para></glossdef>
+ </glossentry>
+
+
+ <glossentry>
+ <glossterm>NetBT</glossterm>
+ <acronym>NBT</acronym>
+ <glossdef><para>Protocol for transporting NetBIOS frames over TCP/IP. Uses ports 137, 138, and 139.
+ NetBT is a fully routable protocol.
+ </para></glossdef>
+ </glossentry>
+
+ <glossentry>
+ <glossterm>Local Master Browser</glossterm>
+ <acronym>LMB</acronym>
+ <glossdef><para>The local master browser maintains a list
+ of all servers that have announced themselves within a given workgroup or NT domain on a particular
+ broadcast-isolated subnet. See <link linkend="DMB"/> for details.
+ </para></glossdef>
+ </glossentry>
+
+ <glossentry>
+ <glossterm>Printer Command Language</glossterm>
+ <acronym>PCL</acronym>
+ <glossdef><para>
+ A printer page description language that was developed by Hewlett-Packard
+ and is in common use today.
+ </para></glossdef>
+ </glossentry>
+
+ <glossentry>
+ <glossterm>Portable Document Format</glossterm>
+ <acronym>PDF</acronym>
+ <glossdef>
+ <para>
+ A highly compressed document format, based on PostScript, used as a document distribution format
+ that is supported by Web browsers as well as many applications. Adobe also distributes an application
+ called <quote>Acrobat,</quote> which is a PDF reader.
+ </para>
+ </glossdef>
+ </glossentry>
+
+ <glossentry>
+ <glossterm>Page Description Language</glossterm>
+ <acronym>PDL</acronym>
+ <glossdef><para>A language for describing the layout and contents of a printed page.
+ The best-known PDLs are Adobe PostScript and Hewlett-Packard PCL (Printer Control Language),
+ both of which are used to control laser printers.</para></glossdef>
+ </glossentry>
+
+ <glossentry>
+ <glossterm>PostScript Printer Description</glossterm>
+ <acronym>PPD</acronym>
+ <glossdef><para>
+ PPDs specify and control options supported by PostScript printers, such as duplexing, stapling,
+ and DPI. See also <link linkend="post-and-ghost"/>. PPD files can be read by printing applications
+ to enable correct PostScript page layout for a particular PostScript printer.
+ </para></glossdef>
+ </glossentry>
+
+ <glossentry>
+ <glossterm>Remote Procedure Call</glossterm>
+ <acronym>RPC</acronym>
+ <glossdef><para>
+ RPCs are a means for executing network operations. The RPC protocol is independent of transport protocols. RPC
+ does not try to implement any kind of reliability and the application that uses RPCs must be aware of the type
+ of transport protocol underneath RPC. An RPC is like a programmatic jump subroutine over a network. RPCs used
+ in the UNIX environment are specified in RFC 1050. RPC is a powerful technique for constructing distributed,
+ client-server based applications. It is based on extending the notion of conventional, or local procedure
+ calling, so that the called procedure need not exist in the same address space as the calling procedure. The
+ two processes may be on the same system, or they may be on different systems with a network connecting them.
+ By using RPC, programmers of distributed applications avoid the details of the interface with the network. The
+ transport independence of RPC isolates the application from the physical and logical elements of the data
+ communications mechanism and allows the application to use a variety of transports.
+ </para></glossdef>
+ </glossentry>
+
+ <glossentry>
+ <glossterm>Server Message Block</glossterm>
+ <acronym>SMB</acronym>
+ <glossdef><para>
+ SMB was the original name of the protocol `spoken' by
+ Samba. It was invented in the 1980s by IBM and adopted
+ and extended further by Microsoft. Microsoft
+ renamed the protocol to CIFS during the Internet hype in the
+ 1990s.
+ </para></glossdef>
+ </glossentry>
+
+ <glossentry>
+ <glossterm>User IDentifier</glossterm>
+ <acronym>UID</acronym>
+ <glossdef><para>
+ The UNIX system user identifier; on older systems a 32-bit unsigned integer, and on newer systems,
+ an unsigned 64-bit integer. The UID is used in UNIX-like operating systems for all user-level access
+ control.
+ </para></glossdef>
+ </glossentry>
+
+ <glossentry>
+ <glossterm>Universal Naming Convention</glossterm>
+ <acronym>UNC</acronym>
+ <glossdef><para>A syntax for specifying the location of network resources (such as file shares).
+ The UNC syntax was developed in the early days of MS DOS 3.x and is used internally by the SMB protocol.
+ </para></glossdef>
+ </glossentry>
+
+
+
+</glossary>