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A server and a web server are different things ? (cafe.coffee-break.cc)
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[โ€“] Onomatopoeia@lemmy.cafe 2 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

Your (Windows) PC is also a server, as Microsoft included SMB (Server Message Block) and Share Services in the Windows workstation product.

Mapping/connecting to a share on another computer is using that machine as a server.

Linux machines can do this too, it's just not a default thing like with Windows.

[โ€“] LoveEspresso@cafe.coffee-break.cc 1 points 10 hours ago

That automatically connects us to something, of which we don't want to become a part ?