[K12OSN] Windows XP problem

Sat Dec 8 11:20:00 UTC 2007

August, not September.

> I again point anybody even *thinking* about doing this to "The Blog  
> of Helios", September 2006.  There's an article entitled "No One  
> Got Fired For Buying Microsoft -- Yes They Did."
>
> http://blog.lobby4linux.com/
>
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> James P. Kinney III wrote:
>>
>> That hack WILL get a school into serious license trouble with the  
>> Redmond Goon Squad. If anyone has upgraded an XP machine to SP2  
>> (if you haven't, I know where a bunch of spam is coming from), dig  
>> up the license you "agreed" to and reread it very carefully.  
>> Buried about 2/3 into it is a blurb about a maximum number of  
>> remote connections allowed. I'm a hard-line staunch advocate of  
>> Open Source, GNU Public License, Linux freedom. It is imperative  
>> that ANYONE who wants to see more FLOSS put into use in schools be  
>> also hard-line about being fully paid up on all required licenses  
>> - ESPECIALLY MICROSOFT, ADOBE, APPLE, and all of the other  
>> educational software. That way we can keep the playing field level  
>> and the lawyers out of the schools. Don't go grabbing some cool  
>> hack for Microsoft stuff that lets you do things you _know_ they  
>> sell an upgrade license for. That has already been covered in the  
>> license "agreement" you were strong-armed into accepting. Be  
>> adamant about NOT putting that CD of school software on a second  
>> (or 20th) machine when you KNOW there was only one license  
>> purchased. This is how we have to play the game - fully above  
>> board with no "gotcha's" later. <end soapbox> On Fri, 2007-12-07  
>> at 13:11 -0600, Doug Simpson wrote:
>>>
>>> Here is a possible. . . http://blandname.com/2006/09/19/running- 
>>> terminal-services-on-windows-xp/ Doug Simpson Technology  
>>> Specialist De Queen Public Schools De Queen, AR  
>>> simpsond at leopards.k12.ar.us
>>>>
>>>>>> "Doug Simpson" <simpsond at leopards.k12.ar.us> 12/07/07 1:01 PM >>>
>>> Actually, there is a way to make XP do that with up to 12 clients  
>>> (no one can login on the main one, though or it acts weird). "you  
>>> cannot do anything to XP to fix this," are you saying "you can't"  
>>> as in legally or software-ily. . . On a Novell network, the main  
>>> one cannot be logged into. Subsequent connections get their own  
>>> desktop, run their own login scripts, drive mappings and  
>>> everything. If a user logs into the main one first, then  
>>> subsequent connections share the first user's connections. I  
>>> assume that winders clients would act similarly. . . The test  
>>> computer we were running from was a Winders98 computer and it  
>>> gave us the XP dexktop, sound, drives and everything. It looked  
>>> like XP was running right on the terminal, but it wasn't. Google  
>>> for it. It involves a registry key edit and rolling back to an  
>>> earlier DLL and it will allow up to 12 connections. I am not  
>>> advocating breaking M$ rules here, but it *is* their own  
>>> software, and it *did* allow it at one time, and it *does* work  
>>> on the later versions of XP. I can't remember the regedit or the  
>>> dll but google uncovered it . . . I'll dig it up if you need  
>>> it. . . Doug Doug Simpson Technology Specialist De Queen Public  
>>> Schools De Queen, AR simpsond at leopards.k12.ar.us
>>>>
>>>>>> "Kemp, Levi" <lnkemp at bolivar.k12.mo.us> 12/07/07 9:42 AM >>>
>>> Fajar, You answered your own question here "I realized about that  
>>> WinXP limitation. But the problem occurs when more than 4 clients  
>>> were currently connected." you cannot do anything to XP to fix  
>>> this, the only choice is a Windows Server. I do have another  
>>> question for you though that might help. What applications are  
>>> needed from windows that cannot be achieved in Linux? You may be  
>>> able to eliminate the need for windows terminals altogether if  
>>> you try hard enough. Levi Kemp Technology Specialist Bolivar R-1  
>>> Schools 417-328-8943 lnkemp at bolivar.k12.mo.us "The only secure  
>>> computer is one that's unplugged, locked in a safe, and buried 20  
>>> feet under the ground in a secret location... and I'm not even  
>>> too sure about that one" --Dennis Hughes, FBI -----Original  
>>> Message----- From: k12osn-bounces at redhat.com on behalf of Fajar  
>>> Adianto Sent: Fri 12/7/2007 8:13 AM To: Support list for open  
>>> source software in schools. Subject: Re: [K12OSN] Windows XP  
>>> problem Thanks James, I realized about that WinXP limitation. But  
>>> the problem occurs when more than 4 clients were currently  
>>> connected. Last time it happened when 9 clients plus 1 on the  
>>> console. And as I notice, everytime this problem happened, there  
>>> was a line appended in the wmiprov.log(windows\system32\wbem\logs 
>>> \wmiprov.log) read "WDM call returned error: 4200". Any  
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