>>We need to remember that TS was thought up for big corporate >>environments with redundant domain controllers and all that other stuff. >> >> >David Guest wrote: > >I don't know who thought it up but the more computers you maintain the >more sense it makes. A pool of redundant poor man terminal servers works >for us. > > I draw the line at more than 5 workstations, use TS. These days installing 10+ PCs on a client / server network seems very silly, unless you have particular needs, eg. a lot of medtech.
You can use a 2003 Terminal Server unlicensed for 120 days. Winconnect XP allows 2 hour sessions for 7 days in demo mode (then needs to be rebooted, not very graceful I grant you). Alternatively there is a hack to allow multiple TS sessions on Windows XP without Winconnect, but I'd only recommend this as a temporary emergency measure. The point is - RDP is easy, doing a backup server is easy, and doesn't necessarilly require twice the licenses. Virtualisation is the answer - where any desktop PC can host the server as required without rebuilding. Peter. _______________________________________________ Gpcg_talk mailing list [email protected] http://ozdocit.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/gpcg_talk
