i am a final year student in Computing and i am doing a distributed file system for my final year project. And can i just know how to identify a computer which connects to a network? your ideas are highly appreciable..
That depends. What kind of network? TCP/IP identifies computers by IP address. DNS provides a way to relate a name to an IP address. There are other protocols (like jini or p2p networks) that allow computers to advertise themselves and be discovered by other computers.