Network Account -
- Network Login - Username/ID - not necessarily the same as an Internet account name

- Network Password - 
temporary password - change to one only you know (see pg 7-3 in text for suggestions.)

Mapping - giving a drive letter to a network server hard disk drive - for example, your local hard drive is usually C and your diskette drive is usually A. Your CD-ROM may be D.  When you log on to the network with your username and password, you can access the network drive or drives as if they were drives on your local computer.  They will be assigned names other than C, A, or D, so they don't conflict with drives you already have in your local computer.

You can typically access programs and files on network drives and store files.  Users can share some of the same files on a network.  Each individual typically has her/his own personal space that others cannot access.

file locking - prevents other users from using the same file at the same time.

Accessing programs on a network -
programs on network (for ex. Microsoft Office programs, Netscape) are copied into RAM and the user can't tell the program is not local.

Advantages of a network-
Company only has to buy one copy of the program (A site license is more expensive than a single user license and often the cost depends upon the  number of users.  Less expensive than buying duplicate copies of all programs used in a business by all users.

Disadvantage: If the network server is not working the user can't access the program.

print queue -a "holding place" - when users share a network and send files to be printed at the same time, they form a line (think of people lined up to board a bus) and are send to the printer one by one.

capture - term used to describe how data you need to print is redirected from your parallel port to the network printer

terminal emulation - Using a computer to simulate the type of terminal required to gain access to another computer - often a mini or mainframe. You need communications software to transfer the data if you want to manipulate it. For example, when you use telnet to access mason to read your E-mail
(Windows Start -> RUN -> Open 
[type in:  telnet mason.gmu.edu] )
after you type in your username, then your password you will see this prompt:
term=(VT100) ENTER
When you press enter your modem talks with the mason computer using VT 100 terminal emulation. Then UNIX software kicks in and you can use UNIX commands to see what is in your mason directory.  Then you can type "pine" to access email.

Network software -
Novell, Lantastic
network capable OSs-Windows NT, WIN 98, UNIX. 

Network connected "dumb" terminals - "dumb" computer - has no processor - keyboard and screen - many terminals can be connected to one server computer.  Technically not a computer, since it has no processor 

Server - a computer that is accessed by multiple users (clients) connected by a network. The server can be a desktop computer/PC . 

client - computer, connected to the network , that is used by the individual user at a desktop computer

Groupware - See Conferencing software for the Web

Distributed Learning Systems - "courses in a box" - integrated asynchronous or asynchronous "Chat," course material, quizzes, etc. Web-based discussion, post assignments, link to html course materials,  Examples:

• Web CT- 
• Lotus Learning Space

• TRY OUT: Townhall - based on Web Crossing software - has "chat" capability : realtime (synchronous) conferencing between two or  more users on a LAN, BBS or the Internet. The chat is accomplished by typing on the keyboard, not speaking.

Each keystroke is transmitted as it is pressed.
- also can archive asynchronous discussions in folders.

Privacy issues on networks - User ID and password protected.  Users have their own private space on the server.  Administrator can access private info if needed to manage space, correct problems, etc.  Nothing is completely private.  Employers can monitor electronic communications on systems owned by a company and used for company business.