W2K Server licensing problem

[renorocks]

I set up a W2K Domain Server on a network with 9 clients. The customer purchased 10 licences. The server will indicate (from time to time) that the licensing has been exceeded and will not allow any more clients to log on. After rebooting all of the clients and server the problem goes away for a few days, but then comes back. What's going on?
I set the server up using Active Directory. There are a mix of client's O.S. (Win98 / WinME / Win2kPro / WinXP Pro).

Any thoughts would be appreciated.
J

 

[amartinez0953]

YOu need to change the server licesning mode to PER SEAT vs PER SERVER. Per Seat is a CAL for each client attaching to any server in the network. Per Server mode means the number of conncurant connections to the server.

 

[luv2chill]

Yeah but can one client have more than one simultaneous connection to a server? If he's only got nine clients how could he ever exceed ten connections?

I'm curious also. Any Win2K licensing gurus out there?

But yeah, if you change the licensing mode to "per seat" you won't have any more problems.

l2c

 

[bignick]

turn off the license logging service. this is not needed, and is what is generating the errors in the system log.

 

[Hobbzilla]

Not entirely sure if this is correct but "felt" right.

If the server was sharing multiple duties then a single client could tie up more than one connection. I.E. a file is being shared of the HD at the same time it is being printed to a shared printer.

 

[bozo1]

As bignick said, turn off licensing services - it's buggy and doesn't work correctly as you found out. However, if you are using WTS, you have to have it enabled.