Failure to issue license for XP

[Jim]

What a pain,,,,

Have Server with windows 2000 sp3 running Terminal
Server...

New laptop arrive with Windows XP Porfessional,,, I am
able to load TS Client and connect to TS the first time
out... After that no loading of licenss and no
connection,,

What is going on???

thanks
jim

 

[Rob Leitman \(MS\)]

Are there any eventlog messages on the TS? Is the license server installed
and activated? Maybe the TS can't discover the LS.

Rob

 

[Randy Morgan]

Jim,

I spoke with Microsoft Licensing about this issue and they
told me that XP has a built in license and the server does
not issue a license for XP. IF what they told me is true
and the license resides locally on the XP box than I would
look on the XP box for the problem.

Randy

 

[Matthew Harris [MVP]]

What they told you isn't quite right...

All Microsoft OSes require a license (in the form of a
TSCAL). However, you don't have to buy TSCALs for XP Pro
or 2000 Pro. When those particular OSes connect to the
terminal server, the TS license server will automatically
issue 'free' TSCAL licenses, and these free licenses will
not come from the TSCALs that you have bought.

-M