HARDWARE & NETWORK

Monday, October 27, 2008

Peer-to-Peer Networking Disadvantages

  • Network security applies only to a single resource at a time .
  • Users may be forced to use as many password as there are shared resources.
  • Each machine must be backed up individually to protect all shared data.
  • Every time a users access a shared resource, the user at the machine where the resouce resides suffers reduced performance.
  • There is no centralized organisational scheme to locate or control access to data.
  • A peer-to-peer network does not usually work well with more than 10 users.