We have purchased enough per seat licenses for the number of users of Windows 2000 server and the licenses are set to replicate between domain controllers. However if you look in Licensing, under Administrative Tools on the server, the Products View shows more per seat licenses allocated than purchased and there is a yellow warning symbol against the Windows Server product. Under the Clients (Per Seat) tab it shows several machine accounts with the warning symbol and a 1 in the Unlicensed Usage column.
This does not seem to prevent anyone logging on but I don't understand why computer accounts and user accounts are both being counted. This is surely double counting the number of connections. I am certain we have purchased more than enough CALs for the number of users or computers on the network. The only information I can find relating to this problem is a document on the Microsoft site which says that counting machine accounts is a problem with Windows 2000 SP1 and is addressed in the next service pack, but we have SP2 on the servers and it still happens.
How do I resolve this? Is this likely to cause any real problems for users logging on?
This does not seem to prevent anyone logging on but I don't understand why computer accounts and user accounts are both being counted. This is surely double counting the number of connections. I am certain we have purchased more than enough CALs for the number of users or computers on the network. The only information I can find relating to this problem is a document on the Microsoft site which says that counting machine accounts is a problem with Windows 2000 SP1 and is addressed in the next service pack, but we have SP2 on the servers and it still happens.
How do I resolve this? Is this likely to cause any real problems for users logging on?
