In the business world, most employees are generally not computer literate and managing computer hardware and networks can be very frustrating even savvy people. As you know there is a huge problem with security on the internet, a few minutes of unprotected browsing on the internet will have you receiving some objectionable files stored on your computer. If your hardware is unprotected there are a varying number of problems that include Tracking cookies, which are small files stored on your computer to track activities.

Network services are the foundation of a networked computing environment. Generally network services are installed on one or more servers to provide shared resources to client computers.

Network services are configured on corporate local area network (LAN) to ensure security and user friendly operation. Corporate LANs are user network services such as Domain name System (DNS). Dynamic host configuration Protocol (DHCP) eases administrative burden by automating the Internet Protocol address retrieval.

The DHCP service handles this automatically. There would only users accountable for anything they do while on the internet, but also increases security as anyone wanting to access the LAN must have a registered user name and password.

Email, printing and network file sharing services are also network services. They are seldom not used in a LAN environment, as they allow users to access any printer connected to the network, files on the server or other nodes connected and streamline data transfer within the network. They require users to have permissions to access the resources shared.

A distributed file system should allow multiple client processes on multiple computers to access and update the same files. Hence updates to the same file from one client should not interfere with access and updates from other clients. Concurrency control or locking may either be built into the file system or be provided by an added protocol.

Written by Antonious Lamston. Find more information on Networking Services.