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Setting up your local area network, Planning your network, Chapter 3: setting up your local area network – Toshiba Magnia SG30 User Manual

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Chapter 3

Setting Up Your Local
Area Network

This chapter describes the basic configuration options for
setting up your Local Area Network (LAN) and connecting to
the Internet. This chapter is for the network administrator.

Additional configuration options for technically minded users
are described in

“Managing the Server” on page 149

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Planning your network

This section describes how to set up your Toshiba Magnia SG30
Appliance Server for the first time.

DEFINITION: A server is the central computer to which other
computers connect so that they can share services, such as
printing, hard disk space, and the Internet.

In a network, the individual computers connected to the server are
called client computers, or clients.