[K12OSN] Licensing, urgent !!

[Andrew Fisk]

Having had this conversation with MS -- you need one license for each  
client connecting -- no matter what is in the middle!

Sorry for the bad news

Andy
Spitfire Computer Services
441 Beaver Street
Suite 202
Sewickley, PA 15143
Phone (412) 749-0162
Fax: (412) 749-0203
andy at spitcomp.com
www.spitcomp.com

On Oct 7, 2005, at 12:29 PM, Timothy Legge wrote:

> Hi
>
> When I looked into the licensing some time ago I
> believe that you needed a Terminal Services Cal for
> each person/seat that connected.  The fact that the
> Windows server only sees three connecting server is
> immaterial I believe.
>
> Granted I have not looked in detail lately, but you
> can be fairly certain that you would need more licence
> than less...
>
> Tim
>
> --- 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?
>>
>> Thnx,
>>
>> Kevin
>>
>> _______________________________________________
>> K12OSN mailing list
>> K12OSN at redhat.com
>> https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/k12osn
>> For more info see <http://www.k12os.org>
>>
>>
>
> _______________________________________________
> K12OSN mailing list
> K12OSN at redhat.com
> https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/k12osn
> For more info see <http://www.k12os.org>
>
>

-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://listman.redhat.com/archives/k12osn/attachments/20051007/0493e9c0/attachment.htm>