LAN Operating Systems

The main features of network LAN operating systems are:

• Basic operating system features support:
  • protocol support
  • processor support
  • hardware detection
  • multiprocessing support for applications
• Security features:
  • Authentication
  • Restrictions
  • Authorizations
  • access control
• Features for file, Web service, printing, and replication
• Directory and name services management
• User management features along with provisions for remote access and system management
• Internetworking features like routing and WAN ports
• Clustering capabilities

Common tasks associated with network operating systems include:

• User administration
• System maintenance activities like backup
• Tasks associated with file management
• Security monitoring on all resources in the network
• Setting priority to print jobs in the network

Pick one of the features and one of the tasks. Define and discuss the importance of your picks. Try not to duplicate the picks of other previous posters. Provide enough detail that someone with no prior knowledge of the subject would come away reasonably able to identify and differentiate the features and tasks you describe.