You only need MS liscenses for MS Services for example: IIS, Terminal Services, ISA, Exchange, Active Directory, Etc. Any other servers you ran would fall under their own licensing scheme.
-----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Corni Beerse Sent: Monday, January 26, 2004 4:56 AM To: cutter Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: licensing? cutter wrote: > Hello, a quick question: > > Some people at the company I work for think that you need to buy a CAL > if you want to connect a Windows workstation to ANY server, even a > non-MS server such as a linux box with Xvnc running on it. I think > this is not true. I'm not about to ask MS since I'm sure they'll tell > me "of course!" even if it's not true. There is some note in the M$Windows license that says that you need to have a M$Windows license for the machine you use to view the M$Windows display (the license for the seat) and you need to have a M$Windows license for the machine that serves the M$Windows display. Hence, if you have a M$WIndows license for the machine that runs the VNC viewer and you have a license for the M$WIndows servers then you are done. The only possible restriction you might have is when you run a M$Windows server and a Linux desktop. However, since most linux machines are installed on hardware that comes with some kind of M$Windows (including license) there is no problem at all. Then you can install the M$WIndows server with licensing per seat at the server side, this also coveres the license. Be noted, there is no speak of any version or variant for the desktop/displaying machine. a M$Windows 95 or even M$Windows 3.11 suits a need. CBee _______________________________________________ VNC-List mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] To remove yourself from the list visit: http://www.realvnc.com/mailman/listinfo/vnc-list _______________________________________________ VNC-List mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] To remove yourself from the list visit: http://www.realvnc.com/mailman/listinfo/vnc-list
