[LINK] RFI: Multi-User Capability on User Machines

[Chris Maltby]

> At 04:06 PM 4/09/2006, Chris Maltby wrote:
>> You can have lots of inactive users, or get one of the server editions
>> which allow multiple active "terminal" sessions, but your MS PC is
>> still a "personal" computer.

On Mon, Sep 04, 2006 at 04:23:47PM +1000, Jan Whitaker wrote:
> How do you interpret file sharing via a router? I realise it's not sharing 
> cpu time, but there must be some concept of multiuser in terms of 
> resources. And as far as I know, I haven't installed a server to handle it, 
> unless file sharing is a low level server???

To be properly pedantic, I am presuming the definition of
multi-user to mean "has more than one simultaneous active terminal
(keyboard/video/mouse)". While a windows desktop can share files
among multiple simultaneous clients, those clients send requests
to server processes - the end-user responsible for generating the
client requests doesn't "interact" with server machine and doesn't
control her own processes on that machine.

The concept is somewhat obsolete, except in a financial sense. Each
person on a Windows network needs a license to a Windows desktop OS
(or an equivalent terminal services client access license).

Chris