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NAS
NAS is an acronym for Network Access Server. The NAS is meant to act as a gateway to guard access to a protected source. A client connects to
the NAS, and the NAS connects to another resource asking whether the client's supplied credentials are valid. Based on the answer, the NAS then
allows or disallows access to the protected resource. An example of a NAS implementation is IEEE 802.1X.
NetBIOS
NetBIOS is an acronym for Network Basic Input/Output System. It is a program that allows applications on separate computers to communicate
within a Local Area Network (LAN), and it is not supported on a Wide Area Network (WAN).
The NetBIOS giving each computer in the network both a NetBIOS name and an IP address corresponding to a different host name, provides the
session and transport services described in the Open Systems Interconnection (OSI) model.
NFS
NFS is an acronym for Network File System. It allows hosts to mount partitions on a remote system and use them as though they are local file sys-
tems.
NFS allows the system administrator to store resources in a central location on the network, providing authorized users continuous access to
them, which means NFS supports sharing of files, printers, and other resources as persistent storage over a computer network.
NTP
NTP is an acronym for Network Time Protocol, a network protocol for synchronizing the clocks of computer systems. NTP uses UDP (datagrams)
as transport layer.
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