What is the role of a network operating system?
Include two examples of network operating systems in your answer. A network operating system plays a similar role for a network to the role an operating system plays for an individual computer. The network operating system controls the flow of information from one component of a network to another component. Whether it is a request to print a file or start a program stored on the file server, it is the network operating system that receives the request and sees that it is carried out properly. The network operating system is found in two places, on the file server and the individual workstations. Most of the network operating system is installed on the file server. Individual workstations only contain as much of the network operating system as they need to make communicating with the network possible. Examples of file server type operating systems are Netware from the company called Novell and Windows NT from Microsoft. The Macintosh operating system and Windows 95 serve as both person
