HP NetStorage 6000 - Manual (Page 183)

Glossary
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L
Local Area Network (LAN)
A network of interconnected workstations sharing the resources of a single processor
or server, typically within the area of a small office building.
Logical drive
A logical grouping of one or more physical drives on a system. In systems that employ
RAID controllers, logical drives are roughly equivalent to what is commonly referred to
as a RAID set.
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M
Machine account
All NT workstations and servers on a network must be provided with a machine
account in order to participate in a domain.
Media Access Control (MAC) address
A unique, hardware specific address used to identify a network node.
Meta-data
Data that describes data. This includes files names, file properties and security infor-
mation, and lists of block addresses at which each file’s data is stored.
Mount
To make a portion of a file system on a remote computer accessible to a local (client)
computer. The term is most commonly used with UNIX-based computers. The analo-
gous term using in Windows networking is Share.
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