Terminal Services

[Chupaweed]

Can someone give more info about Terminal services and what it can do or direct me to a web site or something that is full of info thanx <IMG SRC="smilies/wink.gif" border="0">

[PitaBred]

All terminal services is is a remote access program for your computer. You connect to the machine over the internet or network, and run it remotely, just as you would do anything if you were sitting at the computer. Hope that helps... there's not much more to it though...

[Chupaweed]

Can you give more detailed information???

[PitaBred]

You have to install the Terminal Server with a version of Win2k server (Pro doesn't have it) adn then you can install the client, adn run it from any PC. You make a new connection to the computer, and then run it like a windows desktop within a window. There's not too much to configure, unless you don't know how to do networking permissions and such very well, where I'd recommend you'd go take a class. Why do you want to use Terminal Server?

[ShadowKing]

Here is Microsoft's official word on what Ts is.

Basically it allows you to get a desktop for a remote machine on yours. Lets try that again...

You can get ServerA's desktop on your computer ClientN. Anything you do behaves as if it was done locally on that box.

[kannibul]

don't forget the cost of licenses!!
unless you are running win2k on the client, you will have to purchase a CAL for that computer. microsoft also made it per seat, so you will have to have one for every computer that logs into the terminal server, and you can't revoke it either, you ahve to call microsoft's terminal server client access license *************, and manually add them back to the server pool.
I have more exerience with win2k server w/terminal services than microsoft, after all, do you see any KB articles about dos printing from a terminal session - try it - it freezes the app (even good old edit) - at least until I figured out a fix. I would tell MS how, but would I get paid for it? nope....

[Chupaweed]

Thanx for the info <IMG SRC="smilies/rolleyes.gif" border="0">

[CJK]

In regards to the liscence. As long as you have a win2k machine and you log into another win2k machine using terminal services you don't have to worry about CAL.

[myth]

as long as your network connection is fast enough, you can run a 386 client on a athlon server and run as the speed of the athlon. get it?

[myth]

monty python, i assume? knights who say ni!

[iamtheman]

Here's site to check out http://www.thethin.net