Incoming Connections and CALs

[Guest]

I'm a newbie when it comes to Windows 2000 Server. I want to treat my machine as a PPP server and not much else. I need users to be able to dial my PPP server machine (running Windows 2000 Server) so they can access a database running on a different machine on our network. Is the number of users allowed to dial-in at one time going to be limited by the number of CALs

The MS documentation I've seen reads like this

"On a computer running Windows 2000 Professional, an incoming connection can accept up to three incoming calls, up to one of each of these types. On a computer running Windows 2000 Server, the number of inbound calls is only limited by the computer and its hardware configuration.

I'm not sure if this means regardless of the number of CALs, or up to the number of CALs.

 

[Bill Grant]

As the statement you quoted says, the only limit on a server is what your
hardware can support. A remote access connection does not require a CAL. You
may require a CAL for the connection to the database server.

I'm a newbie when it comes to Windows 2000 Server. I want to treat my

machine as a PPP server and not much else. I need users to be able to dial
my PPP server machine (running Windows 2000 Server) so they can access a
database running on a different machine on our network. Is the number of
users allowed to dial-in at one time going to be limited by the number of
CALs?

The MS documentation I've seen reads like this:

"On a computer running Windows 2000 Professional, an incoming connection

can accept up to three incoming calls, up to one of each of these types. On
a computer running Windows 2000 Server, the number of inbound calls is only
limited by the computer and its hardware configuration."

I'm not sure if this means regardless of the number of CALs, or up to the

number of CALs.