Re: Server too Expensive...

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From: Richard G. Harper (rgharper_at_email.com)
Date: 07/17/04 

Date: Sat, 17 Jul 2004 16:07:21 -0400

To add to the chorus ... why use a server to perform a function that a $50
router will do and require no CALs at all? :-)

File and printer sharing - yes, a CAL will be required for each workstation
that connects to your server. IANAL but I believe one CAL will cover one
workstation no matter how many connections it makes to your server.

Remember also that each copy of Windows Server comes with 5 CALs included in
the purchase price, so all you need is one more five-pack to cover ten
workstations. 

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"Bob Sisson" <Bob@Sisson Family.com> wrote in message 
news:40f94756$0$28137$9a6e19ea@news.newshosting.com...
>I appreciate all the responses.  I would prefer a "Server" rather than a
> workstation to perform my gateway (ICS) duties, but the cost is too high.
>
> With 10+ stations on the intranet, I have been told I would need 10 CALs 
> and
> that really drives up the cost.  I was HOPING that since all I was doing 
> was
> running ICS and file sharing I wouldn't need CALS but have been told
> elsewise.  I can get server (2000, XP, 2003) cheep, but the CALs are 
> another
> story.
>
> I have seen a DHCP server program that will run on a workstation, and I 
> will
> look into that to see if I can turn off the ICS mini-server, or got with a
> router.
>
> Microsoft seems to have left a "hole" in their product line for the SOHO
> offices and large technology families.  Even SBS is expensive when you 
> need
> lots of CALS.  SBS might make sense if I wanted Exchange, but we don't use
> it.
>
> Bob Sisson
>
>

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