Workgroup

Workgroup definition - hacker
A Microsoft term for a number of computers on a LAN sharing both resources and responsibilities. Workgroups can provide for a convenient sharing of files, printers, and network resources—essentially a Peer-to-Peer (P2P) system.

See Also: Computer; Local Area Network (LAN); Network; Peer-to-Peer (P2P).

About, Inc. Workgroup. [Online, 2004.] About, Inc. Website. http:// compnetworking.about.com/cs/design/g/bldef_workgroup.htm.

Webster's New World Hacker Dictionary Copyright © 2006 by Bernadette Schell and Clemens Martin.
Published by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Indianapolis, Indiana.
Used by arrangement with John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

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