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Strategy to Remote Desktop multiple users simultanously
I have a about 10 quite old WinXP PC's whose owners now moved offsite but
still access documents and applications remotely using Remote Desktop (RDP) from their Laptops. Pretty infrequent access. I wanted to consolidate all this data on a single server where each person could now login using RDP. What's the best solution? Unfortunaltely WinXP wont allow multiple users to login at the same time. What server type should I be looking at? I have max 10 users and not more than 3 RDP at the same time. I installed Win Small Business Server but could only RDP to it as admin. User account RDP always failed for lack of sufficient privilages. After lots of debugging I suspect that Win SBS is wrong for me. It does too many other things: e.g. runs IIS, dhcp, and other stuff. I believe it set itself as a Domain Controller too. What seems the best way to go? Is Win Home Server going to do what I need , maybe? Unfortunately I can't find a spec. on how many simultanous RDP users it supports. What'd be nice is a server that's an end in itself. A lot of SBS stuff looks like a gateway to other PCs. I'm only used to doing Remote Dsktop; but SBS seemed to be trying to do VLAN's, Remote Services and a bunch of stuff I am doubtful I need. -- Rahul |
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Strategy to Remote Desktop multiple users simultanously
You want some sort of Terminal Server is you are going to be using RDP.
There are other solutions such as VPN. "Rahul" wrote in message 3.245... I have a about 10 quite old WinXP PC's whose owners now moved offsite but still access documents and applications remotely using Remote Desktop (RDP) from their Laptops. Pretty infrequent access. I wanted to consolidate all this data on a single server where each person could now login using RDP. What's the best solution? Unfortunaltely WinXP wont allow multiple users to login at the same time. What server type should I be looking at? I have max 10 users and not more than 3 RDP at the same time. I installed Win Small Business Server but could only RDP to it as admin. User account RDP always failed for lack of sufficient privilages. After lots of debugging I suspect that Win SBS is wrong for me. It does too many other things: e.g. runs IIS, dhcp, and other stuff. I believe it set itself as a Domain Controller too. What seems the best way to go? Is Win Home Server going to do what I need , maybe? Unfortunately I can't find a spec. on how many simultanous RDP users it supports. What'd be nice is a server that's an end in itself. A lot of SBS stuff looks like a gateway to other PCs. I'm only used to doing Remote Dsktop; but SBS seemed to be trying to do VLAN's, Remote Services and a bunch of stuff I am doubtful I need. -- Rahul |
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Strategy to Remote Desktop multiple users simultanously
You want some sort of Terminal Server is you are going to be using RDP.
There are other solutions such as VPN. "Rahul" wrote in message 3.245... I have a about 10 quite old WinXP PC's whose owners now moved offsite but still access documents and applications remotely using Remote Desktop (RDP) from their Laptops. Pretty infrequent access. I wanted to consolidate all this data on a single server where each person could now login using RDP. What's the best solution? Unfortunaltely WinXP wont allow multiple users to login at the same time. What server type should I be looking at? I have max 10 users and not more than 3 RDP at the same time. I installed Win Small Business Server but could only RDP to it as admin. User account RDP always failed for lack of sufficient privilages. After lots of debugging I suspect that Win SBS is wrong for me. It does too many other things: e.g. runs IIS, dhcp, and other stuff. I believe it set itself as a Domain Controller too. What seems the best way to go? Is Win Home Server going to do what I need , maybe? Unfortunately I can't find a spec. on how many simultanous RDP users it supports. What'd be nice is a server that's an end in itself. A lot of SBS stuff looks like a gateway to other PCs. I'm only used to doing Remote Dsktop; but SBS seemed to be trying to do VLAN's, Remote Services and a bunch of stuff I am doubtful I need. -- Rahul |
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Strategy to Remote Desktop multiple users simultanously
The proper answer is a terminal server, but licensing is costly and it's
fairly complex to set-up. Other option might be a virtual-machine host with three copies of XP running. This way you might be able to re-use your existing XP licences, depending on licence type. A reasonable spec processor (say dualcore 3GHz or better) will support 3-5 virtual machines at acceptable speed for most purposes. Options for a host are Linux or Windows (XP or standard server) running VMWare Server (Free) or VMWare ESX on bare metal. Or VirtualBox. Microsoft's Virtual PC is useable, and easier to set-up, but its performance falls-off rapidly if you launch multiple VM's. I find that VMWare Server 1.x is still hard to beat for performance. Unfortunately SBS is not ideal for this kind of setup, you want a host with the bare minimum of overheads. "Rahul" wrote: I have a about 10 quite old WinXP PC's whose owners now moved offsite but still access documents and applications remotely using Remote Desktop (RDP) from their Laptops. Pretty infrequent access. I wanted to consolidate all this data on a single server where each person could now login using RDP. What's the best solution? Unfortunaltely WinXP wont allow multiple users to login at the same time. What server type should I be looking at? I have max 10 users and not more than 3 RDP at the same time. I installed Win Small Business Server but could only RDP to it as admin. User account RDP always failed for lack of sufficient privilages. After lots of debugging I suspect that Win SBS is wrong for me. It does too many other things: e.g. runs IIS, dhcp, and other stuff. I believe it set itself as a Domain Controller too. What seems the best way to go? Is Win Home Server going to do what I need , maybe? Unfortunately I can't find a spec. on how many simultanous RDP users it supports. What'd be nice is a server that's an end in itself. A lot of SBS stuff looks like a gateway to other PCs. I'm only used to doing Remote Dsktop; but SBS seemed to be trying to do VLAN's, Remote Services and a bunch of stuff I am doubtful I need. -- Rahul . |
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Strategy to Remote Desktop multiple users simultanously
The proper answer is a terminal server, but licensing is costly and it's
fairly complex to set-up. Other option might be a virtual-machine host with three copies of XP running. This way you might be able to re-use your existing XP licences, depending on licence type. A reasonable spec processor (say dualcore 3GHz or better) will support 3-5 virtual machines at acceptable speed for most purposes. Options for a host are Linux or Windows (XP or standard server) running VMWare Server (Free) or VMWare ESX on bare metal. Or VirtualBox. Microsoft's Virtual PC is useable, and easier to set-up, but its performance falls-off rapidly if you launch multiple VM's. I find that VMWare Server 1.x is still hard to beat for performance. Unfortunately SBS is not ideal for this kind of setup, you want a host with the bare minimum of overheads. "Rahul" wrote: I have a about 10 quite old WinXP PC's whose owners now moved offsite but still access documents and applications remotely using Remote Desktop (RDP) from their Laptops. Pretty infrequent access. I wanted to consolidate all this data on a single server where each person could now login using RDP. What's the best solution? Unfortunaltely WinXP wont allow multiple users to login at the same time. What server type should I be looking at? I have max 10 users and not more than 3 RDP at the same time. I installed Win Small Business Server but could only RDP to it as admin. User account RDP always failed for lack of sufficient privilages. After lots of debugging I suspect that Win SBS is wrong for me. It does too many other things: e.g. runs IIS, dhcp, and other stuff. I believe it set itself as a Domain Controller too. What seems the best way to go? Is Win Home Server going to do what I need , maybe? Unfortunately I can't find a spec. on how many simultanous RDP users it supports. What'd be nice is a server that's an end in itself. A lot of SBS stuff looks like a gateway to other PCs. I'm only used to doing Remote Dsktop; but SBS seemed to be trying to do VLAN's, Remote Services and a bunch of stuff I am doubtful I need. -- Rahul . |
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