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Souljas

macrumors regular
Original poster
Feb 4, 2004
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Hi, this is a really stupid question, but what do the servers actually do?
 
They serve stuff ;-)

Servers provide services to client machines. Examples are:

Login Authentication
File storage
Email
Web services
LDAP directory services
VPN services

Servers make networks more interesting.
 
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