RE: [K12OSN] Microsoft Terminal Services

[Shahms King <shahms shahms com>]

On Tue, 2003-12-02 at 08:50, Julius Szelagiewicz wrote:
> On Tue, 2 Dec 2003, Micah F. Hale wrote:
> > >> I don't want to sound anti open source, but you do understand
> > >> that the Microsoft RDP client will run on ANY 9x, NT, 2000,
> > >> XP box?  And it also only takes a matter of minutes to setup.
> > >>  Also if your attaching to a Windows 2000 Terminal Server and
> > >> workstations are Win2k, then you don't need a terminal license at
> > all.
> > If the workstations are Win2k, then one can assume that a person already
> > possesses a license for the workstations.  Therefore, a person can
> > connect to any Win2k Terminal server and not need a license since A
> > Win2k Terminal server issues an unlimited number of "built in" licenses
> > to Win2k desktops for free.

not true, you still need a CAL for *every user* on *every workstation*
(that is, last time I checked, the CAL's were per-user per-IP, but I
could be mistaken on the number of CAL's needed, but you will need one
for every user at a minimum regardless of the OS they are using to
connect).

If I'm correct about the per-user-per-IP licensing, then going with
rdesktop on the LTSP server is the best solution, then all you need is
one CAL per user as they will all be connecting from the IP address of
the LTSP machine.
-- 
Shahms King <shahms shahms com>