REF: PROJECT PROPOSAL FOR THE PLANNING, DESIGNING AND IMPLEMENTATION OF A FILE SERVER

Introduction:

A private entrepreneur Prof . Mukiibi Lawrence established St, Lawrence University in 2006, after critically observing what the existing universities in Uganda were not offering. One of his agenda was to establish a university that gives the skills to the students which enables the to create jobs instead of looking for Jobs. This is reason why he chose university motto as “light your candle”, His main emphasis is on the ICT technology and Entrepreneurship.

It started its operations in 2007 and right now, the pioneer students are in the final year. A lot of success has been achieved since its inception, however, it has met many challenges as well since the inception of St .Lawrence University, there has been a gap in centralised system for file database, where the lecturers could post the lecture notes, and students download them at the convenient time. 

Problem;
As it has been highlighted in the introductory part, although there many problems facing the university, The lack of the centralised file database is very critical in that it lead to the failure of the university objective and goals, In such way the when students don’t get enough study material it can degrade their performance . 

The current system on Lecture note distribution doesn’t inconvenience the students only but it also increases the cost as well to the university , Besides there could be a tendency when the attendant of the copier machine where notes are currently left, He may not be available , this leads to time delay which of course retards the lecture period.

The Benefits of file-server

A filer server is a high speed computer configured to receive requests , process and give service the other computers on the network. Basically a file server will able to store files of different faculties o the university, having a file server have several advantages