network transparency

<networking>

A feature of an operating system or other service which lets the user access a remote resource through a network without having to know if the resource is remote or local.

For example NFS allow users to access remote files as if they were local files.

Last updated: 1996-12-21

Nearby terms:

Network Time Protocol ♦ network topology ♦ network transparency ♦ NetX ♦ Net:X

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