Greg Twyford wrote:

> 
> I've got some doubts on this one, having run a run a test 2000 TS server
> and 2000 client set some time ago. If you set up a 2000 server as a TS
> server, and don't use the licencing facility, it will run for about 3
> months. allowing, in my case 2000 clients to function with it, then it
> will stop.

You still need to run a licence server - in my case this is the same
physical machine. The licence server has a licence category "Windows
2000 licence" which shows available free licences as "unlimited"

> 
> An interesting experiment, that helped me decide that TS isn't worth the
> trouble. Some support firms use it with old clients to save money, but
> the practice becomes too server-centric with no hope of employing an
> emergency server in a server-failure, and often poor reliability from
> the clients. Dedicated thin clients make sense, except workstation
> prices are so low now.
>

this isn't my experience - we have a variety of clients from winterms to
 well spec'ed machines. MD within a terminal session outperforms even
the fastest fat client.

Tony

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