[K12OSN] Windows XP problem

"Terrell Prudé Jr." microman at cmosnetworks.com
Sat Dec 8 14:23:50 UTC 2007


You're right; the follow-on article "One Small Firm Gives Microsoft the
Boot" is in September.  The first one is indeed in August.

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Almquist Burke wrote:
> 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 suggestion?
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