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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> |