Re: Licensing for Win2003 server for running webapps

Not a licensing problem.  It's actually a hard limit built into the network
stack.  I believe it's any incoming TCP/IP connection, but it might be *any*
incoming connection.

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Lyle Giese" <lyle(at)lcrcomputer.com>
To: "Jim Herrick" <jim(at)bleedpurple.com>
Cc: <hwg-servers(at)hwg.org>
Sent: Monday, June 30, 2003 3:39 PM
Subject: Re: Licensing for Win2003 server for running webapps


> I thought that limitation applied only to 'file and print' services and
> such, and not to a webserver app.  I was under the impression that there
was
> no connection licensing if the only connection was via the webserver.
>
> Lyle
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Jim Herrick" <jim(at)bleedpurple.com>
> To: "Rajnish Bhaskar" <r.bhaskar(at)compserv.gla.ac.uk>;
<hwg-servers(at)hwg.org>
> Sent: Monday, June 30, 2003 8:23 AM
> Subject: Re: Licensing for Win2003 server for running webapps
>
>
> > IIRC, almost any non-server OS from Microsoft has a *limit* of 10
network
> > connections.  This is probably not suitable for any production web
server.
> >
> > Jim
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Rajnish Bhaskar" <r.bhaskar(at)compserv.gla.ac.uk>
> > To: <hwg-servers(at)hwg.org>
> > Sent: Monday, June 30, 2003 1:19 PM
> > Subject: Licensing for Win2003 server for running webapps
> >
> >
> > > Hi folks,
> > > This may be off-topic for this list, in which case I apologise.
> > >
> > > One of my collegues is wanting to set up a server for running various
> > > web applications both internally and externally.  Unfortunately, we
> > > have found the licensing for Win2003 Server very confusing.  It seems
> > > that we need an "external connector license" for each user who
> > > connects to the server from outwith our university, but we aren't
> > > sure what this means.
> > >
> > > Are they referring to users who use the server as a file or
> > > authentication server (ie none) or just any user who connects to the
> > > web server that will be running on that machine (probably Apache),
> > > which we have no way of determining.
> > >
> > > Do we even need Win2003 server?  Would a workstation OS like Win2K
> > > Pro suffice, given that we're going to be using it only as as a web
> > > (and possibly database) server?
> > >
> > > TIA,
> > > Raj.
> > > --
> > > Rajnish Bhaskar, Technical officer
> > > r.bhaskar(at)compserv.gla.ac.uk, http://lordofthemoon.com
> > > IT Education Unit, University of Glasgow
> > > http://www.iteu.gla.ac.uk/
> > > --
> > > We're women.  We have double standards to live up to.
> > >        -- Ally McBeal
> > >
> > >
> >
> >
>

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