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):

1. The low-level network drivers receive the request and pass it to the server driver.
2. The server passes a file-read request to the appropriate local file system driver.
3. The local file system driver calls a lower-level disk driver to access the file.
4. The data is passed back to the local file system driver.
5. The local file system driver passes the data back to the server.
6. 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