Win2K TS lics, 98 clients...

[Steve]

Have a Win2K server serving about 8 stations in-house (all
98se), a couple remote (XP Pro, 2K Pro, 98se); the license
server is installed and activated. The in-house stations
use TS to run a couple of contractors'
accounting/dispatching apps.

Bought CALs a couple of times - TS Licensing shows entry
for Temporary Licenses (0 available) and the two CAL
purchases - one says 8 total, 1 issued 7 available; the
other says 5 total, 4 issued 1 available; so it looks to
me like we have a total of 13 purchased licenses with 8
available, but most days if someone logs in to TS later in
the day they get a can't connect msg and we have to hunt
down a station that's got TS open but is not being used,
close the session and try again (which works).

Also, when I look at the details of each of the two CAL
installations, it says that the license is due to expire
on some date (sometime now or very soon; and these are not
the "Temporary License"s)...I didn't think these lics had
a finite shelf life...

The Windows 2000 per-server license is for 10; I wonder if
having the computer log in to the domain and separately
log in to a TS session is the cause of the problem...

 

[Vera Noest [MVP]]

If logging off a client helps to get another client in, then you
have a limited number of concurrent connections, and that means a
shortage of normal server CALs, not TS CALs. Check in the
Licensing applet in Control Panel who uses your server CALs.
If you have more than one server, it is more advantageous to
change to "Per Seat" licensing mode for the server CALs. In "Per
Server" mode, you would need server CALs for each server.

TS CALs do have an expiration date. This feature makes sure that
your TS CAL is not permanently lost when you discard a client or
reinstall the client OS from scratch. When an active client is
within a week of the expiration date of the TS CAL, it will
automatically renew the TS CAL and get a new expiration date.

 

[Steve]

-----Original Message-----
If logging off a client helps to get another client in, then you
have a limited number of concurrent connections, and that means a
shortage of normal server CALs, not TS CALs. Check in the
Licensing applet in Control Panel who uses your server CALs.
If you have more than one server, it is more advantageous to
change to "Per Seat" licensing mode for the server CALs. In "Per
Server" mode, you would need server CALs for each server.

TS CALs do have an expiration date. This feature makes sure that
your TS CAL is not permanently lost when you discard a client or
reinstall the client OS from scratch. When an active client is
within a week of the expiration date of the TS CAL, it will
automatically renew the TS CAL and get a new expiration date.

--
Vera Noest
MCSE, CCEA, Microsoft MVP - Terminal Server
http://hem.fyristorg.com/vera/IT
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Thanks. I was getting nowhere Googling around trying to
get the answers...