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A client generally refers to any process or computer that can request a resource or service, and a server is any process or computer that can provide the resource or service. In Windows, a client machine is referred to as a workstation.
Server machines at Carleton college are located in the basement of the CMC and have many different functions, from providing residential networking services to authentication to lab machines. Server machines do not run typical operating systems such as Windows XP, but use expensive networking systems optimized for serving purposes.
Any information on a server is physically located on a hard drive in one of the server computers, but you can get to it from any machine on the network. For example, when you use IMAP to log-in to your Carleton email account, you are actually reading data stored in a basement machine. The client computer on which you launch an e-mail client program (e.g. Mulberry) is accessing the data.
NetWare is the networking software that was used on the Carleton network. It should not be used any longer and if you have it installed on your computer, have it deleted immediately (see: Uninstall Netware).
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