Terminal Sever

Terminal Server is a technology developed and perfected by Citrix. Think of it as PCAnywhere on steriods. When Windows NT 4.0 was released Microsoft purchased the technology from Citrix and released Terminal Server edition 4.0 for NT, this was installed as a seperate operating system and did not run on the regular NT4.0. With the release of Windows 2000 server - the terminal server services are incorparated into the OS, and on WindowsXP professional it is also part of the operating system.

In short Terminal Server is another flavor of NT. It is actually "NT Terminal Server". It is used primarily to allow multiple users to access a single installation of an application using a client like Terminal Services Client. For instance you can install Office 2000 on a terminal server and your clients can access that single installation using either MS Terminal Services Client or a third party program such as Citrix and an ICA client. Terminal Services is included in W2K Server and XP. The client is included in W2k Pro but nothing in NT 4.0 Server.

Keep in mind that 2000 server has terminal server built in, aka, it is not a stand alone server product

Brien M. Posey

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