August 2000
Intermediate to advanced
800 pages
21h 5m
English
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Network Services
The architecture of the Windows 2000 family of operating systems is designed so that the end-user applications do not have to be aware of the details of the networking infrastructure. They do not have to know anything about network protocols that are installed in the system, the physical organization of the local network, or what kind of network hardware is used. There are several layers of abstraction in the networking architecture of Windows 2000, beginning from the NDIS drivers and mini-ports and finishing with high-level communication libraries such as WinInet, RPC, or DCOM.
Windows 2000 Core: Network Services
Figure 13.2 represents the networking architecture of Windows 2000. As you see, the lowest layer is built on a standard ...