Re: [Sheflug] Back to Windows

[Neil R Porter <n.r.porter [at] xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Sat, 2002-10-26 at 01:08, Mr. Adam ALLEN wrote:
> > Here here.  Although point 1, I get VNC server to work beautifully on my
> > XP machine and use the client on here (Mandrake 9.0 laptop), so my wife
> > can check her email without having to go into the attic.  Unless I've
> > missed your point?  'unusable for licensing reasons'?
> 
> It's along the lines of Big Bill says that you MUST buy two licences if
> you use VNC (I'm not sure if it applies to XP's own desktop sharing
> feature)... I seem to remember the reasoning being that XP is a single
> client licence (although VNC doesn't give you the ability to run as two
> distinct users anyway).

Ah I see.  Didn't realise that the EULA was that restrictive (although
I'm not exactly surprised).

> ... It's not a technical issue - as I've run VNC on my Dad's XP machine
> before - since it would share out Internet and you can't just ssh in and
> issue "poweroff".
> 
> The killer missing feature of Windows for me is:
> 
> ... why can't I switch to another desktop to carry out this completely
> un-related task 

There's a lot more missing for me than that!... but, when I used to use
NT at work we all had some third party thing that gave you a window
manager.  So it can be done.  Not sure if it was 'pay for' or not.  Just
a btw.

Thanks 

Neil

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