Terminal Services... 1

[redman71]

MS KB Article (Q300847), shows me how to set up Terminal Services. BUT, what puzzles me is that it's showing how to connect the client to the server. Wouldn't I want to do this the other way around? Connecting the server to the client would be more productive. Can anyone shed some light on this for me?

Thanks!

 

[lobster76]

Not entirely sure what you mean by more productive.
The idea of terminal services being that you run software on a client that for whatever reason does not want to be running locally but on the Terminal Server. So you would always choose your client and connect to the Server. Typically the Client is running other applications locally but some piece of software is to be run on the Terminal Server and here you connect to it.

Why would you need to connect the server to a client ?
Admittedly if you are running it on 1000s of PCs - but even then you still need to initiate the connection from the client.

Tom Tom Lodge

 

[redman71]

I understand there are two "modes", Application Mode (the one you are talking about) and Remote Administration Mode (where I can remotely administer the clients from the server)
This is what I thought.

 

[redwolf52]

the remote admin option lets you remotely admin the server from a workstation. So you dont have to keep walking to the server room everytime you need to install software or just check on the server.

If you want to remotely admin client workstations, I suggest VNC or something similar

 

[redman71]

OH. My mistake.

Thanks for the clarification.

 

[GlenJohnson]

VNC is the way to go. Try and do a search for TightVNC. It allows multiple people to access a pc at the same time and see what each other is doing. The original VNC would kick you off if someone else VNC'd in. Glen A. Johnson
Microsoft Certified Professional
glen@nellsgiftbox.com


"The essence of knowledge is, having it, to apply it;
not having it, to confess your ignorance."
Confucius (c. 551BC - 479BC) Chinese philosopher,

 

[dankelt]

Quote:
"The original VNC would kick you off if someone else VNC'd in."

By default yes, but you can tell it to always allow shared connections.