Question

You have been called in to consult for a company that is running 15 Windows 10 computers, two Linux computers, and three Mac OS X computers. Your boss wants all of these computers to be able to share files.

a. What file sharing protocol do you recommend and why?

b. Should you configure this network as a peer-to-peer network or as a client/server network? Explain your answer.

Answer 1

a)File Sharing is one of the major conceptual problem in the companies because exchanging file:s after each and every stage of the completion is very important. Hence, this is where the need for the file sharing com es into scene b)According to me P2P sharing of the files will be best. The reason of using this service is that the method is secure and the data is been shared from person to person. All the methods of storage, tran smission and dispersion of the data includes manual sharing and utilizing of the removable media,centralized servers and all the computer netw orks.It is totally based on the peer-to-peer applications architecture.The shared files on the respective computers of other users are been indexed on the directory servers. The data loss is minimum as it is been shared n person. P2P technology is also widely used technology and is been used by many softw are giants and companies in this business to take some names they are Spotify,BifToirent,ThePira tesBay,etc. It also consists of the cloud-based file syncing and sharing of the services implementing the autmated file transfers by updating the files using the dedicated sharing of the directories on each of the network devices