[K12OSN] Licensing, urgent !!

Roger roger.in.eugene at gmail.com
Fri Oct 7 16:17:06 UTC 2005


On 10/7/05, Kevin Verheyen <thepiano at telenet.be> wrote:
> Hello to you all.
>
> I'l have to give a presentation on monday about LTSP in the
> University of Leuven asked by REN Vlaanderen in Belgium.
>
> I do have one big question regarding Licensing.
> At our school we are running the following setup
>
> One smb/ldap file server on FC4
> 3 centos LTSP servers with each 25 clients
> 1 Windows 2003 TS.
>
> Now about licensing:
>
> How many Windows Device Licenses do I need?
> As I can record on the Win2003 server the only connections seen by
> the server are those of the 3 LTSP servers.
> So IMHO I only need 3 device TS licenses. Or am I wrong?
> Do I need a win TS Device cal license for each of my workstations, or
> just for my LTSP servers?
> In fact they all run virtual desktops of the server, they are no real
> device connections?
>
> I do hope I only need 3....
> Could some of you confirm or reject this.
Terminal Server CALs are required for each TS connection. 
Essentially, if anybody sees the Windows desktop, they would need a TS
CAL.

I'll leave it to someone else to figure out the rest of the licensing.




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