- Network Socket
- A special device file that reprensents
a communications connection, usually to another program on another computer over
the network.
- NetBios
- NetBios is Microsoft's name for their filesharing protocol.
In the Unix and Macintosh worlds, it is called
SMB.
- NFS - Network File System
- Sun Microcomputer's Network File System is a filesharing protocol that
has become a standard in the Unix community.
See also AFP and SMB.
- NIS - Network Information Service
- Sun Microcomputer's Network Information Service is a nameserver system
that maintains lists of computer hosts, users,
groups, and other configuration information.
NIS was previously called YP for Yellow Pages,
but the name overlapped a trademark by AT&T so Sun changed it.
- NTFS - NT Filesystem
- Microsoft's NTFS was built on OS/2's HPFS.
It is a more unix-like
filesystem type than FAT32.
It stores
file names as Unicode,
and has permission attributes that are similar to Unix ACLs.
Normally, it can only be used by Windows NT, 2000 or XP, or later.
Linux can mount NTFS file systems for reading but not writing.
For more information on its use in Linux, see the
NTFS Linux FAQ