Location transparency

Location transparency

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unreferenced=December 2007In computer networks location transparency describes names used to identify network resources independent of both the user's location and the resource location.

A distributed system will need to employ a networked scheme for naming resources.

In other words it is an idea that the resources can be accessed by a user from anywhere on the network without knowing where the resource is located. A file could be on the user's own PC, or thousands of miles away on other servers.

oftware using network transparency

These well-known software, or types of software, can or do use network transparency:
* Distributed file systems such as the Andrew File System.
* MythTV back-ends stream, and otherwise interact, with front-ends transparently to the user.
* GNOME virtual filesystem.
* KDE KIO.

Network protocols providing location transparency

* It is a standard feature of TIPC to address "Port Names" regardless of the network "Node" they were opened on.

ee also

Transparency (computing)


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