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4 <title>Glossary</title>
7 <glossterm>Access Control List</glossterm>
10 A detailed list of permissions granted to users or groups with respect to file and network resource access.
11 See <link linkend="AccessControls"/>,
12 for details.</para></glossdef>
16 <glossterm>Active Directory Service</glossterm>
17 <acronym>ADS</acronym>
19 A service unique to Microsoft Windows 200x servers that provides a centrally managed
20 directory for management of user identities, and computer objects, as well as the permissions
21 each user or computer may be granted to access
22 distributed network resources. ADS uses Kerberos-based
23 authentication and LDAP over Kerberos for directory access.
28 <glossterm>Common Internet File System</glossterm>
29 <acronym>CIFS</acronym>
30 <glossdef><para>The new name for SMB. Microsoft renamed the
31 SMB protocol to CIFS during the Internet hype in the nineties.
32 At about the time that the SMB protocol was renamed to CIFS, an
33 additional dialect of the SMB protocol was in development.
34 The need for the deployment of the NetBIOS layer was also
35 removed, thus paving the way for use of the SMB protocol natively
36 over TCP/IP (known as NetBIOS-less SMB or <quote>naked</quote> TCP transport).
41 <glossterm>Common UNIX Printing System</glossterm>
42 <acronym>CUPS</acronym>
44 A recent implementation of a high capability printing system for UNIX developed by
45 <ulink url="http://www.easysw.com/">.</ulink> The design objective of CUPS was to provide
46 a rich print processing system that has built-in intelligence that is capable of correctly rendering (processing)
47 a file that is submitted for printing even if it was formatted for an entirely different printer.
53 <glossterm>Domain Master Browser</glossterm>
54 <acronym>DMB</acronym>
55 <glossdef><para>The Domain Master Browser maintains a list of all the servers that
56 have announced their services within a given workgroup or NT domain. See <link linkend="DMB"/> for details.
61 <glossterm>Domain Name Service</glossterm>
62 <acronym>DNS</acronym>
64 A protocol by which computer host names may be resolved to the matching IP address/es. DNS is implemented
65 by the Berkeley Internet Name Daemon. There exists a recent version of DNS that allows dynamic name registration
66 by network clients or by a DHCP server. This recent protocol is known as Dynamic DNS (DDNS).
71 <glossterm>Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol</glossterm>
72 <acronym>DHCP</acronym>
74 A protocol that was based on the BOOTP protocol that may be used to dynamically assign an IP address,
75 from a reserved pool of addresses, to a network client or device. Additionally, DHCP may assign all
76 network configuration settings and may be used to register a computer name and its address with a
81 <glossterm>Extended Meta-file Format</glossterm>
82 <acronym>EMF</acronym>
85 An intermediate file format used by Microsoft <?latex \linebreak ?>Windows-based servers and clients. EMF files may be
86 rendered into a page description language by a print processor.
92 <glossterm>Graphical Device Interface</glossterm>
93 <acronym>GDI</acronym>
95 Device Independent format for printing used by Microsoft Windows.
96 It is quite similar to what PostScript is for UNIX. Printing jobs are first generated in GDI and
97 then converted to a device-specific format. See <link linkend="gdipost"/> for details.
102 <glossterm>Group IDentifier</glossterm>
103 <acronym>GID</acronym>
105 The UNIX system Group Identifier; on older systems a 32-bit unsigned integer and on newer systems
106 an unsigned 64-bit integer. The GID is used in UNIX-like operating systems for all group level access
112 <glossterm>Internet Print Protocol</glossterm>
113 <acronym>IPP</acronym>
114 <glossdef><para>An IETF standard for network printing. CUPS
115 implements IPP.</para></glossdef>
119 <glossterm>Key Distribution Center</glossterm>
120 <acronym>KDC</acronym>
121 <glossdef><para>The Kerberos authentication protocol makes use of security keys (also called a ticket)
122 by which access to network resources is controlled. The issuing of Kerberos tickets is effected by
123 a KDC.</para></glossdef>
127 <glossterm>NetBIOS Extended User Interface</glossterm>
128 <acronym>NetBEUI</acronym>
130 Very simple network protocol invented by IBM and Microsoft. It is used
131 to do NetBIOS over ethernet with low overhead. NetBEUI is a non-routable
137 <glossterm>Network Basic Input/Output System</glossterm>
138 <acronym>NetBIOS</acronym>
140 NetBIOS is a simple application programming interface (API) invented in the eighties
141 that allows programs to send data to certain network names.
142 NetBIOS is always run over another network protocol such
143 as IPX/SPX, TCP/IP, or Logical Link Control (LLC). NetBIOS run over LLC
144 is best known as NetBEUI (The NetBIOS Extended User Interface &smbmdash; a complete misnomer!).
150 <glossterm>NetBT</glossterm>
151 <acronym>NBT</acronym>
152 <glossdef><para>Protocol for transporting NetBIOS frames over TCP/IP. Uses ports 137, 138 and 139.
153 NetBT is a fully routable protocol.
160 <glossterm>Local Master Browser</glossterm>
161 <acronym>LMB</acronym>
162 <glossdef><para>The Local Master Browser maintains a list
163 of all servers that have announced themselves within a given workgroup or NT domain on a particular
164 broadcast isolated subnet. See <link linkend="DMB"/> for details.
169 <glossterm>Printer Command Language</glossterm>
170 <acronym>PCL</acronym>
172 A printer page description language that was developed by Hewlett Packard
173 and is in common use today.
178 <glossterm>Portable Document Format</glossterm>
179 <acronym>PDF</acronym>
182 A highly compressed document format, based on postscript, used as a document distribution format
183 that is supported by Web browsers as well as many applications. Adobe also distribute an application
184 called <quote>acrobat</quote> which is a PDF reader.
190 <glossterm>Page Description Language</glossterm>
191 <acronym>PDL</acronym>
192 <glossdef><para>A language for describing the layout and contents of a printed page.
193 The best-known PDLs are Adobe PostScript and Hewlett-Packard PCL (Printer Control Language),
194 both of which are used to control laser printers.</para></glossdef>
198 <glossterm>PostScript Printer Description</glossterm>
199 <acronym>PPD</acronym>
201 PPD's specify and control options supported by postscript printers, such as duplexing, stapling,
202 DPI, ... See also <link linkend="post-and-ghost"/>. PPD files can be read by printing applications
203 to enable correct postscript page layout for a particular postscript printer.
208 <glossterm>Server Message Block</glossterm>
209 <acronym>SMB</acronym>
211 SMB was the original name of the protocol `spoken' by
212 Samba. It was invented in the eighties by IBM and adopted
213 and extended further by Microsoft. Microsoft
214 renamed the protocol to CIFS during the Internet hype in the
220 <glossterm>User IDentifier</glossterm>
221 <acronym>UID</acronym>
223 The UNIX system User Identifier; on older systems a 32-bit unsigned integer and on newer systems
224 an unsigned 64-bit integer. The UID is used in UNIX-like operating systems for all user level access
230 <glossterm>Universal Naming Convention</glossterm>
231 <acronym>UNC</acronym>
232 <glossdef><para>A syntax for specifying the location of network resources (such as file shares).
233 The UNC syntax was developed in the early days of MS DOS 3.x and is used internally by the SMB protocol.