There really should be a comp.os.ms-windows.licensing-questions
newsgroup.

I have a Win2k Server that is used in a small office for file sharing
and remote access via Terminal Services. We have the standard 5 CALs
that come with the server plus 5 TS CALs. There are five Win98
machines that connect to this server internally, and we often connect
remotely to administer the box, do reporting, and so on.

We only recently set the Win2k Server up as the file server though,
and we immediately found that some Win98 clients were having problems
connecting. Specifically, they were being denied connections and the
event log shows that we exceeded our licensed connection limit.
Strange. So I open the license manager and see that we have 5 Per
Server licenses, but 7 Per Server Reached.

The Per Server Reached doesn't seem to ever go down, regardless of who
disconnects.

The problem for us is that with per server licensing I should be able
to have 5 clients connect concurrently, regardless of what machines it
is. This doesn't seem to be happening. Once a client connects the
license seems to get mapped to them and they never lose it, regardless
of whether they are connected or not.

How can I resolve this issue? Currently the only fix would be to add
new per server licenses.

And I don't even want to get started on how Win2k TS licensing works.
Who's crazy idea is that?

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Dustin Puryear
Puryear Information Technology, LLC
Providing expertise in the management, integration, and
security of Windows and UNIX systems, networks, and applications.