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| 2 | To be able to connect to Microsoft Windows 2000 Terminal Services (and
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| 3 | probably later versions), you'll need to deal with licensing. This is
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| 4 | complicated. This file is supposed to contain some information about
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| 5 | how rdesktop works with Microsofts license systems.
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| 7 | There's a lot of information on the MS web site, for example,
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| 8 | http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;EN-US;287687.
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| 10 | From the rdesktop mailing list:
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| 12 | Peter Åstrand <[email protected]>, 2003-02-06
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| 13 |
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| 14 | > We are running rdesktop 1.2 on machine A and connects to a Windows 2000
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| 15 | > Server (machine B). The W2K machine has 5 real licenses installed ("Windows
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| 16 | > 2000 Terminal Services Client Access License", "Open" type). This can be
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| 17 | > verifier by using "Terminal Services Licensing". The problem is that all
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| 18 | > issued licenses have an expire-date. The expire date for the license issued
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| 19 | > to A was reached today, and no more connections could be made until we
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| 20 | > changed the client name (by using -n).
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| 21 | >
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| 22 | > We also have another similiar systems, with Linux machine C and W2K server
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| 23 | > D. This server has 200 licenses installed of the type "Select". On this
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| 24 | > server, the issued licenses seems to be permanent: The expire date is set
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| 25 | > to "-", and we have no problem with this system.
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| 27 | > The question of course is why the first system issues license with
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| 28 | > expiration date, while the second system issues permanent licenses.
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| 31 | Darryn Capes-Davis, 2003-02-07
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| 33 | > I have been through the problems and can tell you what is going
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| 34 | > on. The main difference of Machine B (Server 1) and Machine D (Server
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| 35 | > 2) is that from what I see Machine B has Service Pack 3 installed and
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| 36 | > Machine D does not. You see in Service Pack 3 there was a change made
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| 37 | > to TS Licencing in that Microsoft introduced a licence recovery
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| 38 | > mechanism. To cut to the point (I don't know the details) rdesktop 1.2
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| 39 | > with SAVE_LICENCE defined works fine. In the new lic method the
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| 40 | > terminal server expects a valid licence to be presented to renew
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| 41 | > it. Otherwise it just expires it - and a day later you will see it
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| 42 | > actually gone (it does housekeeping once a day)! So if SAVE_LICENCE
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| 43 | > code is not enabled then it just expires and you can't use the licence
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| 44 | > until it cleans it away - and this is where a little gotcha is - if
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| 45 | > you move from using an rdesktop without SAVE_LICENCE to one with
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| 46 | > SAVE_LICENCE then it still won't recover an 'expired' licence. You
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| 47 | > have to wait for the daily housekeeping to clean it up - this really
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| 48 | > had me going for half a day or so! This is exactly what happened to
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| 49 | > you.
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| 50 | >
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| 51 | > The Server pre Spk 3 has the old model where licences never expire. To
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| 52 | > recover a licence that you never wanted to use again you have to call
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| 53 | > the Microsoft Clearing House. That's why they introduced the new
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| 54 | > method. And if you upgrade a Pre Spk3 server to Spk3 then the licences
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| 55 | > granted still stay with the old method - only new licences granted
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| 56 | > will use the new expiry method.
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