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- To be able to connect to Microsoft Windows 2000 Terminal Services (and
- probably later versions), you'll need to deal with licensing. This is
- complicated. This file is supposed to contain some information about
- how rdesktop works with Microsofts license systems.
-
- There's a lot of information on the MS web site, for example,
- http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;EN-US;287687.
-
- From the rdesktop mailing list:
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- Peter Åstrand <astrand@cendio.se>, 2003-02-06
-
- > We are running rdesktop 1.2 on machine A and connects to a Windows 2000
- > Server (machine B). The W2K machine has 5 real licenses installed ("Windows
- > 2000 Terminal Services Client Access License", "Open" type). This can be
- > verifier by using "Terminal Services Licensing". The problem is that all
- > issued licenses have an expire-date. The expire date for the license issued
- > to A was reached today, and no more connections could be made until we
- > changed the client name (by using -n).
- >
- > We also have another similiar systems, with Linux machine C and W2K server
- > D. This server has 200 licenses installed of the type "Select". On this
- > server, the issued licenses seems to be permanent: The expire date is set
- > to "-", and we have no problem with this system.
- >
- > The question of course is why the first system issues license with
- > expiration date, while the second system issues permanent licenses.
-
-
- Darryn Capes-Davis, 2003-02-07
-
- > I have been through the problems and can tell you what is going
- > on. The main difference of Machine B (Server 1) and Machine D (Server
- > 2) is that from what I see Machine B has Service Pack 3 installed and
- > Machine D does not. You see in Service Pack 3 there was a change made
- > to TS Licencing in that Microsoft introduced a licence recovery
- > mechanism. To cut to the point (I don't know the details) rdesktop 1.2
- > with SAVE_LICENCE defined works fine. In the new lic method the
- > terminal server expects a valid licence to be presented to renew
- > it. Otherwise it just expires it - and a day later you will see it
- > actually gone (it does housekeeping once a day)! So if SAVE_LICENCE
- > code is not enabled then it just expires and you can't use the licence
- > until it cleans it away - and this is where a little gotcha is - if
- > you move from using an rdesktop without SAVE_LICENCE to one with
- > SAVE_LICENCE then it still won't recover an 'expired' licence. You
- > have to wait for the daily housekeeping to clean it up - this really
- > had me going for half a day or so! This is exactly what happened to
- > you.
- >
- > The Server pre Spk 3 has the old model where licences never expire. To
- > recover a licence that you never wanted to use again you have to call
- > the Microsoft Clearing House. That's why they introduced the new
- > method. And if you upgrade a Pre Spk3 server to Spk3 then the licences
- > granted still stay with the old method - only new licences granted
- > will use the new expiry method.
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