WinSock: A Berkeley UNIX Sockets Interface for Internet Applications
Author(s): No Name, No Title, No Author. Published: 2011-03-26. This article is written in good faith but neither has any affiliations with nor affiliations to the commercial provider/s of the data discussed. In some cases, the data may simply be public domain.
In short, a Winsock is a socket which is normally used to communicate between computers on the same physical machine and is a programmable (but not programmable via the hardware) mechanism. However, when you use it on a different hardware machine, you can use the mechanism like a normal socket but with some additional software.
This article is not intended to be a tutorial on Winsock. However, it is intended as a demonstration of how a Winsock can be used as a normal socket with an extra level of capabilities. In other words, that the same protocol can be used for communication like a normal socket but it does have additional capabilities built into it.
The most important thing to remember when using a Winsock is that it is not the source of the line-terminated data. It is actually the destination which is the actual data. In most cases, this data is just used to make sure it is received from a socket instead of being a file, as a file is known to be the most accurate type of record.
A Winsock is not a natively-built protocol but, can be constructed from existing protocols. For this article, it will be used as a simple example to demonstrate the use of a Winsock as a normal socket with additional capabilities.
Many times, especially in the context of an SCP (Secure Copy) operation, Winsocks are used not as the actual source of the line terminated information but as the actual destination for the data. When this happens, the Winsock just needs to be set up in the SCP environment.
When you are done, you need to add the same user and password to the WinSCP which was set up in the SCP environment.
Winsock: A Berkeley UNIX sockets interface for internet applications.
Publisher: Software Package Development Group, Inc.
Software Package Development Group, Inc.
Summary: This package contains the complete source code of WinSock. The package is compiled in a portable manner using the GNU C compiler. WinSock can be used as a replacement for the Win32 sockets interface.
TCP/IP layers
A comparison of Winsock programs and applications.
The Winsock project is an effort which aims to create an interface specification and a set of libraries that allow an application programmer to communicate directly with a socket interface. Such an interface specification is a major step toward implementing an application that is based on a standard interface such as SMB (Server Message Block). SMB is a standard protocol used for accessing networked storage facilities such as file shares, printers, printers, etc. The primary goal of the Winsock project is to build a set of libraries, called Winsock interfaces, that can be used to implement an SMB protocol and that can be used to communicate with a server connected to a network. The Winsock project has been launched as a registered trademark under the name “IETF Protocol and Application Suite. ” The Winsock project contains a variety of implementations of various SMB protocols.
The Winsock project is an effort which aims to create an interface specification and a set of libraries that allow an application programmer to communicate directly with a socket interface. Such an interface specification is a major step toward implementing an application that is based on a standard interface such as SMB (Server Message Block). SMB is a standard protocol used for accessing networked storage facilities such as file shares, printers, printers, etc. The primary goal of the Winsock project is to build a set of libraries, called Winsock interfaces, that can be used to implement an SMB protocol and that can be used to communicate with a server connected to a network. The Winsock project contains a variety of implementations of various SMB protocols.
As the Winsock interface specifications become more and more accurate, the number of SMB implementations increases. To keep up with this increase, the Winsock project has developed a series of reference implementations of SMB for the Windows operating system along with several other platforms. By supporting a broad set of SMB implementations, the Winsock project is able to offer a full suite of SMB protocols through its Windows implementation. Currently, there are three sets of SMB implementations supported.
•Windows SMB 1. 0 and Windows SMB 2.
•Mac OS X SMB 1. 0 and Mac OS X SMB 2.
•Solaris SMB 1. 0 and Solaris SMB 2.
Tips of the Day in Computer Networking
I’m sure by now most of you have seen most of these articles on the Internet. I’ve written several of them as well, but in order to do a better job I thought I would organize the articles I’ve written from the very beginning of my career as a network engineer.
There are several reasons I did this, besides the one above. For instance, I figured it would be very interesting to show what I learned myself. It’s also my way of saying thanks to everyone who took the time to read and share my articles.
I’ll probably stop with the list before I do the next one. There are many more topics I’m sure. It’s very possible I’ve missed some. I don’t want to get you confused and think I’ve missed everything.
I hope you enjoy this list and see things like this being covered over and over again.
I’d also like to mention a few more I never thought of covering.
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