Win XP Home & Terminal Services

[kotsos]

Please forgive my little knowledge on the following matter:

In my company (local municipality authorities) we want to set up an
application server having 5 terminal services licenses (Windows 2000
Advanced Server).

Our purpose is to enable the distant local offices, to connect through their
pcs running Win XP Home, to connct through dial up to the server (prediction
for 15 minutes per day of connection time - light data traffic) and run a
program concerning the issuing of birth certificates etc. Thus, there will
be no need for the citizens to come to the main building for getting all
these papers.

The program containing all the informatino is an Oracle database, where only
certain users at the main building have the authority to add/delete/alter
its data. The distant offices will be able only to connect to the server,
get the information they need, print it and hand it to the citizens asking
for it.

Is it possible to run this scheme, having windows xp HOME installed on the
client pcs, or shall we upgrade to win xp Pro?

Thaank you for your concern.

Kostas

[Walter Clayton]

There's no practical why not. Pro supersets HE only with regard additional
security and networking capabilities. However what you're describing is
nothing involving membership in domains, EFS or other enterprise networking
requirements.

--
Walter Clayton - MS MVP(WinXP)
Associate Expert
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/expertzone
Any technology distinguishable from magic is insufficiently advanced.
http://www.dts-l.org
http://support.microsoft.com/servicedesks/fileversion/default.asp


"kotsos" > wrote in message
...
> Please forgive my little knowledge on the following matter:
>
> In my company (local municipality authorities) we want to set up an
> application server having 5 terminal services licenses (Windows 2000
> Advanced Server).
>
> Our purpose is to enable the distant local offices, to connect through
> their
> pcs running Win XP Home, to connct through dial up to the server
> (prediction
> for 15 minutes per day of connection time - light data traffic) and run a
> program concerning the issuing of birth certificates etc. Thus, there will
> be no need for the citizens to come to the main building for getting all
> these papers.
>
> The program containing all the informatino is an Oracle database, where
> only
> certain users at the main building have the authority to add/delete/alter
> its data. The distant offices will be able only to connect to the server,
> get the information they need, print it and hand it to the citizens asking
> for it.
>
> Is it possible to run this scheme, having windows xp HOME installed on the
> client pcs, or shall we upgrade to win xp Pro?
>
> Thaank you for your concern.
>
> Kostas
>
>
>

[Walter Clayton]

There's no practical why not. Pro supersets HE only with regard additional
security and networking capabilities. However what you're describing is
nothing involving membership in domains, EFS or other enterprise networking
requirements.

--
Walter Clayton - MS MVP(WinXP)
Associate Expert
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/expertzone
Any technology distinguishable from magic is insufficiently advanced.
http://www.dts-l.org
http://support.microsoft.com/servicedesks/fileversion/default.asp


"kotsos" > wrote in message
...
> Please forgive my little knowledge on the following matter:
>
> In my company (local municipality authorities) we want to set up an
> application server having 5 terminal services licenses (Windows 2000
> Advanced Server).
>
> Our purpose is to enable the distant local offices, to connect through
> their
> pcs running Win XP Home, to connct through dial up to the server
> (prediction
> for 15 minutes per day of connection time - light data traffic) and run a
> program concerning the issuing of birth certificates etc. Thus, there will
> be no need for the citizens to come to the main building for getting all
> these papers.
>
> The program containing all the informatino is an Oracle database, where
> only
> certain users at the main building have the authority to add/delete/alter
> its data. The distant offices will be able only to connect to the server,
> get the information they need, print it and hand it to the citizens asking
> for it.
>
> Is it possible to run this scheme, having windows xp HOME installed on the
> client pcs, or shall we upgrade to win xp Pro?
>
> Thaank you for your concern.
>
> Kostas
>
>
>