[SunRay-Users] MS licenses are needed for a Sun Ray server

2005-07-26 Thread Ralf K. Wiegand
Can someone please tell me if there is a FAQ or a document that explains what MS licenses are needed for a Sun Ray server running Solaris 9 with 50 users? We would like to find out what licenses are needed to be in legal compliance even if RDesktop works without the licenses. If there is

Re: [SunRay-Users] MS licenses are needed for a Sun Ray server

2005-07-26 Thread Ralf K. Wiegand
--- Craig Bender [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ralf, This is covered by a thread called MS Cals. The fact that you are using Sun Ray and RDesktop does nothing to change your CAL needs. Here is the MS FAQ. http://www.microsoft.com/windowsserver2003/howtobuy/licensing/priclicfaq.mspx

Re: [SunRay-Users] MS licenses are needed for a Sun Ray server

2005-07-26 Thread Craig Bender
A Windows 2003 CAL is a license to use the OS and or it's services. Legally everyone needs one of these if they are part of a domain, print or save files, etc to a MS Server. This is true for PC's as well as Thin Clients. A MS Terminal Server CAL is required for either every user or device