Now I'm beating a dead horse that no one really cares about (including me), but this topic did get me wondering. I think you'd be OK (at least under XP home) according to the EULA published at MS.
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/eula/home.mspx 1.3 Device Connections. You may permit a maximum of five (5) computers or other electronic devices (each a "Device") to connect to the Workstation Computer to utilize one or more of the following services of the Software: File Services, Print Services, Internet Information Services, and remote access (including connection sharing and telephony services). The five connection maximum includes any indirect connections made through "multiplexing" or other software or hardware which pools or aggregates connections. This five connection maximum does not apply to any other uses of the Software. -----Original Message----- From: Richard Stovall [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Thursday, July 23, 2009 1:28 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Ubuntu and FTP True, true. But that's a limitation in the EULA (and enforced in the OS for SMB/CIFS connections IIRC). Is it really a violation of the EULA to run a server service on a Windows client OS? I kinda doubt it. -----Original Message----- From: Ben Scott [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Thursday, July 23, 2009 1:23 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Ubuntu and FTP On Thu, Jul 23, 2009 at 1:19 PM, Richard Stovall<[email protected]> wrote: >> Except it would violate the license agreement. > > You can't run a service on XP or 2k workstation? I'm probabbly laying it on a bit thick, but the "client" flavors of Windows are positioned to be clients, not servers. There's a license-derived limit to how many connections they'll accept at one time, for example. -- Ben ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~
