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15. Glossary
product name In opsi V3 this is the full name of a product (allowing blanks).
Example for a product name: 'Adobe Acrobat Reader'.
PXE Preboot eXecution Environment: common standard for bootproms.
Usually ->DHCP (not ->bootp) is used with PXE bootproms.
SAMBA Open source software to provide services on Unix/Linux servers for
the ->SMB protocol (used by Microsoft clients).
Server product An opsi product which is executing installations on the server only
(containing no installable client software).
SMB Server Message Block: Protocol by Microsoft to support network
shares and authentication. Recently also named CIFS (Common
Internet File System).
Subnets In case of large local networks it often makes sense to divide it into
subnets. To do this, an arbitrary sized part of the machine address
within the IP is defined to be the subnet. In this case the IP address
has three parts: network, subnet and machine. The subnet mask
determines which part of the IP remains machine specific by setting
these bits in the subnet mask to zero and the bits for the network
and subnetwork to one.
TCP/IP Transmission Control Protocol / Internet Protocol: is originated from
the Unix world and has become the base protocol for all kinds of
internet communication. All the services for web, email, file transfer
etc. are based on TCP/IP.
tftpd tftp (Trivial File Transfer Protocol) is a file transfer protocol (based
on -> TCP/IP) without interactive login. The file transfer is managed
by the tftpd (tftp daemon). For security reasons tftpd has limited
access to the file system and may only transfer files from a
dedicated directory (usually '/tftboot'). The files to be transferred
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