From: "Antti Kurenniemi" 

"Geo."  wrote in message news:4090d8ee{at}w3.nls.net...
> > What actually is a concurrent user in a Windows server?
>
> It's changed with each new version of NT. Basically in NT4 and W2K it
meant
> someone who authenticates using NT authentication. So if you used IIS's
FTP
> service it meant everyone logging in to FTP counted as an authenticated
> user. If you used a third party FTP server program with it's own
> authentication then they didn't count as users. (just to complicate it
they
> also had the "internet connector" user license for unlimited
ftp users) In
> Server 2003, they changed that to any authenticated user, so now even
third
> party ftp servers and mail servers count.
>
> I think they did that to keep people from using third party mail servers
> instead of exchange but that's just a guess.
>
> DHCP I don't think authenticates the user so I don't believe that would
> count however in server 03 as Rich mentioned there is now device licensing
> which may affect DHCP if you choose that model.

Thanks-o. We won't be going anywhere near W2003 in at least ten years, so
no worries there - I still have a couple of NT4 boxes which I intend to
keep running for a long time, at least as long as they stay up, which could
be years .

I've talked to a MS person here in Finland, but he really didn't seem to
care about us (too small fish I think) enough to actually explain the
licensing...


Antti Kurenniemi

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