Installation guide

384 PROTOCOL.INI
protocol driver plus a media access control driver.
See also media access control driver, monolithic
driver, protocol driver.
remote computer See remote.
replicator service The service that maintains
identical sets of files and directories on different
servers.
PROTOCOL.INI The Protocol Manager
initialization file. This file, along with
CONFIG.SYS and LANMAN.INI, controls the
configuration of LAN Manager network device
drivers. This file describes all protocol and
network adapter drivers and defines how to bind
them together. See also CONFIG.SYS,
LANMAN.INI.
resource Any part of a computer system or local
area network, such as a disk drive, directory,
printer or memory that can be allotted to a program
or process while it is running. See also shared
resource.
root directory See directory tree.
R
router See gateway.
receive window The number of NetBIOS
S
message packets received before an
acknowledgment is sent to the sending station.
See also send window.
scroll bar The shaded bar that appears at the
right of some LAN Manager list boxes. Use the
scroll bar and the mouse to scroll through a list
box that contains more information than can be
shown in one screen. See also scroll box.
redirector A local area network device driver
that translates operating system requests into
network events and transmits them to the
appropriate protocol stack. For LAN Manager,
the filename for the redirector is NETWKSTA.
For MS-DOS, NETWKSTA.EXE is a terminate-
and-stay-resident program; for OS/2,
NETWKSTA.SYS is an installable file system.
scroll box The small box superimposed on a
scroll bar in a LAN Manager list box. The scroll
box reflects the position of the information within
the list box in relation to the total contents of the
list. See also scroll bar.
relative path A path relative to the current drive
security A variety of methods that enable an
and directory. For example, from the
C:\LANMAN directory, a relative path to the
directory C:\LANMAN\ACCOUNTS is simply
ACCOUNTS. See also absolute path, network
path, path, and pathname.
administrator to control access to network
resources. See also share-level security, user-
level security.
send window The number of NetBIOS message
packets sent before an acknowledgment from the
receiving station is expected. See also receive
window.
remote Refers to a server, workstation, or
resource that is not located where you are
currently working. See also local.
server A computer on a local area network that
remote administration To perform
controls access to resources such as files and
printers. A LAN Manager server can also function
as a workstation. In Windows NT Advanced
Server domains, a server is a computer that
administrative tasks on a server that is located
away from where the administrator is currently
working. From a LAN Manager workstation, you
can perform remote administration on
LAN Manager servers for which you have Admin
privileges, but not on Windows NT
Advanced Servers.