Windows NT Server
The server component entertains the connections requested by client-side redirectors and provides them with access to the resources they request. When a Windows NT server receives a request from a remote workstation to read a file on the server, these steps occur (as shown in Figure 1.9):
- The low-level network drivers receive the request and pass it to the server driver.
- The server passes a file-read request to the appropriate local file system driver.
- The local file system driver calls a lower-level disk driver to access the file.
- The data is passed back to the local file system driver.
- The local file system driver passes the data back to the server.
- The server passes the data to the lower-level network drivers for transmission back to the client computer.
Figure 1.9 Server-Side Processing Using the Server