On Sat, 3 Jan 2004, Robert de Bath wrote: > Other serious limitations of Terminal services include:
> *) Licenses. The client must be using the same version of Windows as > the machine you are connecting to, if not it'll work for 90 days > then crash until you cough up the price of a new copy of windows. > If you're interested in the encoding that terminal services uses there's > an open source client called 'rdesktop'. But I think the only 'encoding' > advantage that terminal services has is that it saves offscreen pixmaps > at the client end; including font glyphs. I use rdesktop (from Linux) to log into Win Terminal Services. Works like a champ. CERN uses it and is a big booster of rdesktop. If M$ hits you for a Windows upgrade, as you say, then you could use rdesktop to connect to WTS...and save yourself a bundle. >...... Though it still costs a bomb for multi-user > or mixed machines. You sure got that right... ;( But if you absolutely have to run a bunch of remote Windows desktops, it's probably gonna be cheaper to use WTS than have idle Windows boxes in th server room waiting around for someone to log into. -Bill [EMAIL PROTECTED] SDF Public Access UNIX System - http://sdf.lonestar.org _______________________________________________ VNC-List mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] To remove yourself from the list visit: http://www.realvnc.com/mailman/listinfo/vnc-list
