It depends. There are many different file sharing protocols, both local-only and routed. Many use DNS for name resolution, others can use mDNS (an announced protocol not dependent on a DNS server).

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WAFS works by reducing the “chattiness” of Microsoft’s CIFS and the Unix/Linux NFS protocols. It also works by decreasing the latency of WAN communications by eliminating much of the round-trip ...

(1) An earlier network operating system from IBM that ran as a server application under OS/2 and supported DOS, Windows and OS/2 clients. Originally based on LAN Manager when OS/2 was jointly ...

Network file system (NFS), server message block (SMB) and common internet file system (CIFS) are all file access storage protocols, used to access files on remote servers and storage servers (such as ...

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