Terminal services and CAL licences.

[Calvin]

Hi have a quick question.

Have three servers, one domain controller, one application
server and a terminal services server.

Lets say that the application server has 10 CALs in per
server mode.

A user logs onto the network and accesses a share on the
application server - thats one CAL.

Then the user starts a terminal services session wich
opens another share on through the terminal service
server. Is this another CAL?

If so, does that mean that if you have five users with
five terminal sessions open, you are using 10 CALs?

Cheers

Calvin

 

[dlw]

Yes, TS and win2k cals are different, you need 1 TS cal to
do TS, and 1 win2K cal to access the server.

 

[Vera Noest [MVP]]

It's worse, because the client also has used a CAL on the Domain
Controller.

If you have multiple servers, configure their licensing in "per
seat" mode. Then any client can contact an unlimited amount of
servers and shares. So if you configure all servers this way, you
need one CAL per client. If all 3 servers are configured "per
server", then you need 3 CALs per client.

Note that you will need a TS CAL for each client as well, when
running a Terminal server session. But W2K Pro and XP Pro clients
will get a free TS CAL from the TS Licensing server, as soon as
you have that installed and activated.
Note: al the above assumes that you run W2K on the TS.