A business that provides the services and resources required for other businesses to establish a server presence on the Internet. Server services offer an affordable potion for businesses that can't afford the cost of establishing their own in-home server.

Provides RPC (remote procedure call) support, and file, print, and named pipe sharing. See also RPC service.

An SMB filesharing service provider. The Server Service registers a NetBIOS name consisting of the machine name with a suffix value of 0x20. On many platforms, the Server Service will also accept NBT connection requests with a CALLING NAME of *SMBSERVER20.

The server service is a process that, once running, listens for and accepts requests from clients.

A service in Windows NT that supplies an API for managing the Windows NT-based network software. Provides RPC support, and file, print, and named pipe sharing.