Is it possible to unwittingly breach the licensing agreement for Windows 2003 Server regarding Client Access Licenses (CAL's)?
I ask this because we have a network with two Windows Server 2003 R2 Standard Edition machines as domain controllers (each comes with 5 CAL's, so that's 10 CAL's), and more than 10 Windows XP machines joined to the domain.
The only 'service' we use is file/printer sharing, shared from one server.
The servers have been installed with the 'Per Server Mode' licensing (as described here : http://www.microsoft.com/windowsserver2003/howtobuy/licensing/caloverview.mspx) which as far as I can make out, should restrict the number of simultaneous connections to 5 per server.
However, right now I can see that there are 12 machines accessing files on one server, but I've never come across any access denied error messages or whatever regarding CAL's.
Is this within the acceptable use for the licensing conditions, considering the fact that everything seems to work fine without having to add extra CAL's?
I must admit that the licensing webpage confuses me rather than helping
I ask this because we have a network with two Windows Server 2003 R2 Standard Edition machines as domain controllers (each comes with 5 CAL's, so that's 10 CAL's), and more than 10 Windows XP machines joined to the domain.
The only 'service' we use is file/printer sharing, shared from one server.
The servers have been installed with the 'Per Server Mode' licensing (as described here : http://www.microsoft.com/windowsserver2003/howtobuy/licensing/caloverview.mspx) which as far as I can make out, should restrict the number of simultaneous connections to 5 per server.
However, right now I can see that there are 12 machines accessing files on one server, but I've never come across any access denied error messages or whatever regarding CAL's.
Is this within the acceptable use for the licensing conditions, considering the fact that everything seems to work fine without having to add extra CAL's?
I must admit that the licensing webpage confuses me rather than helping
