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Absolute Beginner’s Guide to Networking, Fourth Edition
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Absolute Beginner’s Guide to Networking, Fourth Edition

by Joe Habraken
September 2003
Beginner
504 pages
12h 48m
English
Que
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Glossary

access permission

The level of access or the rights assigned to a user in relation to a particular resource on a network.

access protocol

A protocol that is used to move network data across a WAN connection. Access protocols provide the encapsulation that creates the virtual tunnel.

See Also tunneling.

access time

Measured in milliseconds, access time is the time it takes a drive to access data. The lower the access time, the faster the drive. For example, an 11-millisecond drive would be faster than a 28-millisecond drive.

Active Directory

This name refers to both the hierarchical tree structure provided in the Windows 2000 network environment and the utility used to manage users, computers, and other devices such as printers in the Windows ...

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