LoveEspresso ( LoveEspresso@cafe.coffee-break.cc ) to Ask@piefed.socialEnglish · 4 months agoA server and a web server are different things ?message-squaremessage-square19linkfedilinkarrow-up111
arrow-up111message-squareA server and a web server are different things ?LoveEspresso ( LoveEspresso@cafe.coffee-break.cc ) to Ask@piefed.socialEnglish · 4 months agomessage-square19linkfedilink
minus-squareOnomatopoeia ( Onomatopoeia@lemmy.cafe ) linkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·4 months 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 ( LoveEspresso@cafe.coffee-break.cc ) OPlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·4 months 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 ?