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Terminal services needed with client access licenses?

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by gbland

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Please excuse the probably dumb question but I haven't been able to find a clear (to me anyway) answer :-)

I have a small business client running real estate software on Server 2003 Standard. They now have real estate software running on the server and find they need access by up to 5 people at the same time.

I'm very familiar with computer support (20 plus years) but not server software.

My question is can I just install the licenses on the server or will I have to setup Terminal Services, Active Directory, Domains, that kind of thing?

I need to keep this as simple as possible while I learn and also have an issue with busy real estate agents with minimal computer knowledge.

Thanks in advance for any help you can offer.

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by oh smeg

Server 2003 comes with support for 5 concurrent connections so if you have 5 users you don't need additional CAL's.

As for installing CAL's you don't need to setup anything that you are not currently using.

If there are only 5 users what problems are you seeing?

Col

by gbland

Sorry for not getting back to you. For some reason I didn't get an e-mail advising you had answered the thread.

The issue the client is having is Server 2003 is only allowing 2 concurrent connections at a time. Are there some steps I have to take to enable support for the 5 concurrent connections you mention?

Thanks for your help,
Geoff

by cmiller5400

If you are remote desktoping into the server then yes you will need to set up terminal services, a terminal server licensing server and purchase the terminal server client access licenses for the number of clients that will be connected.

by oh smeg

If the application i running on the server as apposed to having the data on the Sever and running locally on the workstations and accessing the Data File on the Server and saving to that same Data File they the above poster is correct.

But if you have the software ruining on the workstations and only accessing the Server for the Data File it should work with 5 Concurrent connections. Unless of curse the Software has some restrictions in it and requires additional Licenses. If you can setup with the Application installed on the Workstations and the Data on the Server even with additional Licensing from the Software vendor it should be cheaper than using Terminal Services and the associated Licensing.

Of course if you require Terminal Services for other applications then by ail means go that direction.

Col

by gbland

Thanks chmiller 5400. The applications and their associated data files are installed on the server and the clients are using Remote Desktop to access them.

I ordered the licenses in May of this year but for some reason my supplier is having trouble obtaining them. I was hoping to avoid having to use them at all and just get the system working for my clients.

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