LoveEspresso@cafe.coffee-break.cc to Ask@piefed.socialEnglish · 18 days agoA server and a web server are different things ?message-squaremessage-square30linkfedilinkarrow-up115arrow-down11
arrow-up114arrow-down1message-squareA server and a web server are different things ?LoveEspresso@cafe.coffee-break.cc to Ask@piefed.socialEnglish · 18 days agomessage-square30linkfedilink
minus-squareOnomatopoeia@lemmy.cafelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·18 days agoYour (Windows) PC is also a server, as Microsoft included SMB (Server Message Block) and Share Services in the Windows workstation product. Mapping/connecting to a share on another computer is using that machine as a server. Linux machines can do this too, it’s just not a default thing like with Windows.
minus-squareLoveEspresso@cafe.coffee-break.ccOPlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·18 days agoThat automatically connects us to something, of which we don’t want to become a part ?
Your (Windows) PC is also a server, as Microsoft included SMB (Server Message Block) and Share Services in the Windows workstation product.
Mapping/connecting to a share on another computer is using that machine as a server.
Linux machines can do this too, it’s just not a default thing like with Windows.
That automatically connects us to something, of which we don’t want to become a part ?