What are the difference between a client and a server?

Answer 1

A personal computer is usually a stand alone computer in the home and is fully functional by itself. A server computer can do many things, usually used in offices, schools and any other establishment with several machines. A servers main existence is to connect other computers around it and proved services. Such as on a network at one of these establishments let say you click print on a word document, this would then be sent to the server and then sent to the printer nearby. I use to work for a University, they had about 70 servers, quite often a server will have one duty such as a web server which simply sends the websites you want to see to your computer. The internet is made of servers that share data all day.

Answer 2

Generally a Client computer connects to a server computer to obtain various services.

Some of these services that a server computer perform are...

File server

Print server

mail server

DNS server

DHCP server

application server

A server generally hosts these services and provides them to client computers as they request them...

Answer 3

Server Computer is the head of all the network computers that called as a client computer. Server computer main duty is the main storage of all the data of the client computers. Also, Server computer has the Main system that the client computers will be using.

Answer 4

a workstation is a group of computers or laptops and other network equipment such as a network printer utilizing local area network resources at one location used by a group of people while a client computer is a single computer used by a person (it is define, not like a network equipment).

Answer 5

A server waits for requests from the client. Once the client does a request, the server responds. The "client-server" system is used in may different cases; for example, FTP, filesharing, sharing a printer, databases, etc.

A server waits for requests from the client. Once the client does a request, the server responds. The "client-server" system is used in may different cases; for example, FTP, filesharing, sharing a printer, databases, etc.

A server waits for requests from the client. Once the client does a request, the server responds. The "client-server" system is used in may different cases; for example, FTP, filesharing, sharing a printer, databases, etc.

A server waits for requests from the client. Once the client does a request, the server responds. The "client-server" system is used in may different cases; for example, FTP, filesharing, sharing a printer, databases, etc.

Answer 6

client: a computer/device that wants/receives some sort of service (eg: internet browsing, downloading files, etc)

server: a computer/device that gives some sort of service (eg: web server hosts web pages that can be viewed by client machines, dhcp server gives IP addresses to all computers on the network so that they can connect to the network, file server stores files and serves them to clients as requested)

Answer 7

A server waits for requests from the client. Once the client does a request, the server responds. The "client-server" system is used in may different cases; for example, FTP, filesharing, sharing a printer, databases, etc.

Answer 8

A server network is a computer that links devices together. and a desktop is known as a PC(Personal Computer) for a home user, business, etc use.