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Windows 95/98 as a Terminal Server?

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by gpapadopoulos

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Is there any software that will allow a Windows 95/98 machine act as a Terminal Server e.g. allow dumb terminals or other PCs with telnet to login to it or is this capability only available to Windows NT/2000 Server Edition? Which Editions of Windows XP have this capability ?

Thanks in Advance

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by shanghai sam

The answer applies only for Linux-based PCs. What I am looking for is software that will make a Win 98 PC act as a terminal server.

by shanghai sam

As far as I know there is no way of controlling Win9x computers in that way, there might be some way of controlling simple features with some kind of "plug-in" (Winamp can be controlled by telnet), but complete terminal server capabilities aren't possible os far as I know.

To set up a terminal server you should use Win2k (or linux ofcourse). Depending on your needs you should think about Citrix MetaFrame on top of the server OS.

Both Win XP home and profesional support remote assistance. But it has no Terminal server capability... A couple of users can connect, but it's not the same as a Terminal Server.

by maxwell edison

Windows Terminal Server Edition (for NT 4.0 or Windows 2000) is a multi-user server operating system that provides the ability to host multiple simultaneous thin-client sessions. All client processing is performed centrally at the Terminal Serverand only display, keystroke, and mouse commands are transmitted over the network to the client terminal device. Terminal Server provides remote users access to 16 or 32-bit Windows based applications from client terminals or computer systems. The client terminal or system can either be a Windows based terminal or a personal computer running Windows 95, Windows 98, Windows NT 3.51, or Windows NT 4.0.

Citrix MetaFrame is a Windows Terminal Server add-on that significantly enhances the functionality, manageability, and ease of deployment of Terminal Server solutions. MetaFrame is essentially an add-on to Terminal Server extending its functionality beyond that of the RDP protocol (Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP) is Microsoft's proprietary communications protocol

It may be worth looking at.

http://arconline.esri.com/arconline/whitepapers/ao_/wts_support.htm?PID=1

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Maxwell

by gpapadopoulos

From what I understand there no way to make Win 9x/Me PC act as a Termincal Server. The only way is to go for Windows NT/ 2000 Terminal Server Edition. Thank you all very much.

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