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A server and a web server are different things ? (cafe.coffee-break.cc)
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[–] Onomatopoeia@lemmy.cafe 2 points 2 weeks ago

Your (Windows) PC is also a server, as Microsoft included SMB (Server Message Block) and Share Services in the Windows workstation product.

Mapping/connecting to a share on another computer is using that machine as a server.

Linux machines can do this too, it's just not a default thing like with Windows.