Re: rdesktop has eaten all my CALs!

Leon Stringer <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.network.rdesktop.user
Message-ID <[email protected]>
--- "Beaumont, Kevin" <[email protected]>
wrote:

> Change the Terminal Servers to 'User CALs' rather
> than Device CALs.  Device
> CALs and Windows Server 2003 with rdesktop do not
> play.  Putting a TS in
> User CAL mode basically completely disables MS's
> licensing scheme (and is a
> recommended action from Microsoft - go figure).
> 

Sorry I never replied to this. Thanks for your advice
Kevin. I was lying low at work whilst trying to
resolve this issue as no one could log in!

Setting the licensing to Per User does indeed resolve
this issue.

However, this begs a second question: why do our
Linux-based thin client terminals not cause this
problem? They must be using rdesktop too.


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