From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Feb 10 18:34:43 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8237F16A402 for ; Sat, 10 Feb 2007 18:34:43 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from bsam@ipt.ru) Received: from mail.ipt.ru (mail.ipt.ru [80.253.10.82]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3BFAD13C4A3 for ; Sat, 10 Feb 2007 18:34:43 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from bsam@ipt.ru) Received: from doc.sem.ipt.ru ([192.168.12.1] helo=ipt.ru) by mail.ipt.ru with esmtp (Exim 4.62 (FreeBSD)) (envelope-from ) id 1HFx3Y-0004VC-L6; Sat, 10 Feb 2007 21:34:40 +0300 Received: from bsam by ipt.ru with local (Exim 4.63 (FreeBSD)) (envelope-from ) id 1HFx6A-0003P1-Bi; Sat, 10 Feb 2007 21:37:22 +0300 To: apatewna@yahoo.gr References: <01c801c749f9$b90f23d0$6501a8c0@GRANT> <45C8CCA9.2060004@yahoo.gr> <006f01c74abc$c6689c00$6501a8c0@GRANT> <45CCD855.3000000@yahoo.gr> From: Boris Samorodov Date: Sat, 10 Feb 2007 21:37:22 +0300 In-Reply-To: <45CCD855.3000000@yahoo.gr> (apatewna@yahoo.gr's message of "Fri, 09 Feb 2007 22:23:49 +0200") Message-ID: <44490317@srv.sem.ipt.ru> User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.0.50 (berkeley-unix) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: A VERY Strange Question. X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 10 Feb 2007 18:34:43 -0000 On Fri, 09 Feb 2007 22:23:49 +0200 Apatewna wrote: > > Question 3: > > > > I have never understood MS licensing scheme. > How true > > What does this '5 CALs' by default mean? In order for hundreds of > domains to > > be on the (MS) server, doe we need to get hendreds of CALs? > AFAIK, [5 CAL] means "five client access licenses" and it refers to As far as I know, there are two types of CALs: per user and per device. We use the former: diskless stations are booted and are connected to the application FreeBSD server via XDMCP, those who need (approx. 10 users) use rdesktop to connect to the windows server while only one license is used. > accessing shared resources (folders/printers/active directory > services). You'll find that windows Xp home allows only five network > computer to connect to its resources and windows xp pro allows > ten. This has nothing to do with web serving because simply the > clients connect and access information anonymously. WBR -- Boris Samorodov (bsam) Research Engineer, http://www.ipt.ru Telephone & Internet SP FreeBSD committer, http://www.FreeBSD.org The Power To Serve