A device which controls access to separately stored files, as part of a multi-user system.
〔计算机〕文件服务器
Example sentencesExamples
Where is the latest version of that document you were looking for - on the file server, on your laptop, on the PC at home?
Allocation of data is controlled by the local file system on the file server.
Though I wouldn't use it for an enterprise level database or file server, it should be fine for a home file server.
A video server is the multimedia equivalent of a data file server.
So I wrote a proposal and got permission to procure a box to act as a file server, fax server, internal web server, e-mail server and Internet gateway.
Definition of file server in US English:
file server
nounˈfīl ˌsərvər
Computing
A device which controls access to separately stored files, as part of a multiuser system.
〔计算机〕文件服务器
Example sentencesExamples
Where is the latest version of that document you were looking for - on the file server, on your laptop, on the PC at home?
A video server is the multimedia equivalent of a data file server.
So I wrote a proposal and got permission to procure a box to act as a file server, fax server, internal web server, e-mail server and Internet gateway.
Allocation of data is controlled by the local file system on the file server.
Though I wouldn't use it for an enterprise level database or file server, it should be fine for a home file server.