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1<?xml version="1.0" encoding="iso-8859-1"?>
2<!DOCTYPE glossary PUBLIC "-//Samba-Team//DTD DocBook V4.2-Based Variant V1.0//EN" "http://www.samba.org/samba/DTD/samba-doc">
3<glossary>
4	<title>Glossary</title>
5
6	<glossentry>
7		<glossterm>Access Control List</glossterm>
8		<acronym>ACL</acronym>
9		<glossdef><para>
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>
13	</glossentry>
14
15	<glossentry>
16		<glossterm>Active Directory Service</glossterm>
17		<acronym>ADS</acronym>
18		<glossdef><para>
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.
24		</para></glossdef>
25        </glossentry>
26
27	<glossentry>
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).
37		</para></glossdef>
38	</glossentry>
39
40	<glossentry>
41		<glossterm>Common UNIX Printing System</glossterm>
42		<acronym>CUPS</acronym>
43		<glossdef><para>
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 capable of correctly rendering (processing)
47		a file that is submitted for printing even if it was formatted for an entirely different printer.
48		</para>
49		</glossdef>
50	</glossentry>
51
52	<glossentry>
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.
57		</para></glossdef>
58	</glossentry>
59
60	<glossentry>
61                <glossterm>Domain Name Service</glossterm>
62		<acronym>DNS</acronym>
63		<glossdef><para>
64		A protocol by which computer hostnames 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).
67		</para></glossdef>
68        </glossentry>
69
70	<glossentry>
71                <glossterm>Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol</glossterm>
72		<acronym>DHCP</acronym>
73		<glossdef><para>
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
77		dynamic DNS server.
78		</para></glossdef>
79        </glossentry>
80	<glossentry>
81		<glossterm>Extended Meta-file Format</glossterm>
82		<acronym>EMF</acronym>
83		<glossdef>
84			<para>
85			An intermediate file format used by Microsoft Windows-based servers and clients. EMF files may be
86			rendered into a page description language by a print processor.
87		</para>
88		</glossdef>
89	</glossentry>
90
91	<glossentry>
92		<glossterm>Graphical Device Interface</glossterm>
93		<acronym>GDI</acronym>
94		<glossdef><para>
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.
98		</para></glossdef>
99	</glossentry>
100
101	<glossentry>
102		<glossterm>Group IDentifier</glossterm>
103		<acronym>GID</acronym>
104		<glossdef><para>
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
107		control.
108		</para></glossdef>
109	</glossentry>
110
111	<glossentry>
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>
116	</glossentry>
117
118	<glossentry>
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>
124	</glossentry>
125
126	<glossentry>
127		<glossterm>NetBIOS Extended User Interface</glossterm>
128		<acronym>NetBEUI</acronym>
129		<glossdef><para>
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 nonroutable
132		protocol.
133		</para></glossdef>
134	</glossentry>
135
136	<glossentry>
137		<glossterm>Network Basic Input/Output System</glossterm>
138		<acronym>NetBIOS</acronym>
139		<glossdef><para>
140		NetBIOS is a simple application programming interface (API) invented in the 1980s 
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 (NetBIOS Extended User Interface &smbmdash; a complete misnomer!).
145		</para></glossdef>
146	</glossentry>
147
148
149	<glossentry>
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.
154		</para></glossdef>
155	</glossentry>
156
157	<glossentry>
158		<glossterm>Local Master Browser</glossterm>
159		<acronym>LMB</acronym>
160		<glossdef><para>The local master browser maintains a list 
161		of all servers that have announced themselves within a given workgroup or NT domain on a particular
162		broadcast-isolated subnet. See <link linkend="DMB"/> for details.
163		</para></glossdef>
164	</glossentry>
165
166	<glossentry>
167		<glossterm>Printer Command Language</glossterm>
168		<acronym>PCL</acronym>
169		<glossdef><para>
170		A printer page description language that was developed by Hewlett-Packard
171		and is in common use today.
172		</para></glossdef>
173	</glossentry>
174
175	<glossentry>
176		<glossterm>Portable Document Format</glossterm>
177		<acronym>PDF</acronym>
178		<glossdef>
179		<para>
180		A highly compressed document format, based on PostScript, used as a document distribution format
181		that is supported by Web browsers as well as many applications. Adobe also distributes an application
182		called <quote>Acrobat,</quote> which is a PDF reader.
183		</para>
184		</glossdef>
185	</glossentry>
186
187	<glossentry>
188		<glossterm>Page Description Language</glossterm>
189		<acronym>PDL</acronym>
190		<glossdef><para>A language for describing the layout and contents of a printed page.
191		The best-known PDLs are Adobe PostScript and Hewlett-Packard PCL (Printer Control Language),
192		both of which are used to control laser printers.</para></glossdef>
193	</glossentry>
194
195	<glossentry>
196		<glossterm>PostScript Printer Description</glossterm>
197		<acronym>PPD</acronym>
198		<glossdef><para>
199		PPDs specify and control options supported by PostScript printers, such as duplexing, stapling, 
200		and DPI. See also <link linkend="post-and-ghost"/>. PPD files can be read by printing applications
201		to enable correct PostScript page layout for a particular PostScript printer.
202		</para></glossdef>
203	</glossentry>
204
205	<glossentry>
206        <glossterm>Remote Procedure Call</glossterm>
207        <acronym>RPC</acronym>
208        <glossdef><para>
209		RPCs are a means for executing network operations. The RPC protocol is independent of transport protocols. RPC
210		does not try to implement any kind of reliability and the application that uses RPCs must be aware of the type
211		of transport protocol underneath RPC. An RPC is like a programmatic jump subroutine over a network. RPCs used
212		in the UNIX environment are specified in RFC 1050. RPC is a powerful technique for constructing distributed,
213		client-server based applications. It is based on extending the notion of conventional, or local procedure
214		calling, so that the called procedure need not exist in the same address space as the calling procedure. The
215		two processes may be on the same system, or they may be on different systems with a network connecting them.
216		By using RPC, programmers of distributed applications avoid the details of the interface with the network. The
217		transport independence of RPC isolates the application from the physical and logical elements of the data
218		communications mechanism and allows the application to use a variety of transports.
219        </para></glossdef>
220    </glossentry>
221
222	<glossentry>
223		<glossterm>Server Message Block</glossterm>
224		<acronym>SMB</acronym>
225		<glossdef><para>
226		SMB was the original name of the protocol `spoken' by 
227		Samba. It was invented in the 1980s by IBM and adopted 
228		and extended further by Microsoft. Microsoft 
229		renamed the protocol to CIFS during the Internet hype in the 
230		1990s.
231		</para></glossdef>
232	</glossentry>
233
234	<glossentry>
235		<glossterm>User IDentifier</glossterm>
236		<acronym>UID</acronym>
237		<glossdef><para>
238		The UNIX system user identifier; on older systems a 32-bit unsigned integer, and on newer systems,
239		an unsigned 64-bit integer. The UID is used in UNIX-like operating systems for all user-level access
240		control.
241		</para></glossdef>
242	</glossentry>
243
244	<glossentry>
245		<glossterm>Universal Naming Convention</glossterm>
246		<acronym>UNC</acronym>
247		<glossdef><para>A syntax for specifying the location of network resources (such as file shares).
248		The UNC syntax was developed in the early days of MS DOS 3.x and is used internally by the SMB protocol.
249		</para></glossdef>
250	</glossentry>
251
252	
253
254</glossary>
255