[juneau-lug] Re: Remote desktop control

  • From: Edward Hansen <jeremyh@xxxxxxx>
  • To: juneau-lug@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Thu, 28 Nov 2002 00:30:54 -0900

Yeah... I would have to agree to that...

Jeremy

----- Original Message -----
From: James Zuelow <e5z8652@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wednesday, November 27, 2002 9:33 pm
Subject: [juneau-lug] Re: Remote desktop control

> 
> On Wed, 27 Nov 2002 21:04:40 -0900
> "Jeremy Hansen" <jeremyh@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> > 
> > Yes, you need licenses for Windows NT 4.0/98/95 and other platforms
> > to connect, but Windows 2000 Professional and Windows XP
> > Professional addition come with Terminal Services licenses,
> > application licensing is seperate and so is File and Print 
> Sharing. 
> > I think...  I am very interested in figuring this issue out... 
> > Otherwise if you are a scam artist you can just trick the server by
> > changing your hostname (rdesktop -l [hostname] servername I believe.
> > 
> > - Jeremy
> 
> My original point to Andrew's post was to point out that you would
> need to purchase a lot of licenses to use it in the situation that (I
> think) he was envisioning - one Windows server with MS Office, and a
> lot of Linux clients connecting with rdesktop.  I don't think he was
> talking about a Win2k server and Win2k/WinXP clients.  Andrew, can you
> clarify so that Jeremy and I can be sure we're not talking about
> different issues?
> 
> The legal way to do it with Linux clients using rdesktop or ltsp would
> be to obtain TS client access licenses for each Linux client, plus a
> Microsoft Office license for each Linux client ("connected 
> device"). 
> Therefore you might save some money if the CAL + MS Office is cheaper
> than Windows + MS Office.  Of course, you're never sure until you talk
> to a Microsoft sales rep - and then a lawyer.
> 
> I'm not prepared to advise any organization, non-profit or not, to try
> to break the system.  That is just asking for trouble from the 
> BSA. 
> (I'm not saying that you would either Jeremy, I just want to be clear
> that I'm against that sort of warezing.)  I believe that if you're not
> prepared to live with the license (or in the case of a Microsoft
> server the many different licenses), you should use another product
> such as Linux or BSD and OpenOffice that has less stringent
> requirements.  
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> James
> 
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