Windows Terminal Server and Mac OSX

[Jalz]

Hi Guys,

I've got a client that has a filemaker 6 solution. I've hosted it on a Windows 2000 Server. I've got 5 people using it on the network, and its working quite nicely. I need to connect three Mac OSX.3 users to the system, the thing is they are a "remote user" so I thought I might use Terminal services to do this. I've installed Remote Desktop Connection on each Mac.

What licencing and price will I need to obtain from Microsoft to allow three TS users to connect concurrently, and has anyone managed to printout docs from TS and filemaker whilst logged on remotely?

Thanks all

Jalz

[Steve T.]

Howdy! I'm not familiar with Windows Terminal Services, but your remote Macs should be able to connect to FM-hosted databases without any additional software other than FileMaker Pro standard client and the old FILE > OPEN > HOSTS (IP ADDRESS) method. If your server does not have its own public IP address and is on an internal IP, you'd have to redirect PORT 5003 traffic to the server's IP address for FM users to connect from outside.

Just thought I'd mention it in case folks didn't know. Of course, I could be just showing my ignorance of Windows Terminal Services, though!

--ST

[boley]

This may be answering a bit late but I think you have the same number of terminal services licences as you have client license with the server. MS SBE comes with five I think.