Running virtual dummy terminal?

Hi everyone. Is it possible to run a virtual windows 2000 server and also a dummy terminal that would do everything on the dummy server?

I have been running with a dummy for years... [/shrugs]

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Terminal services should allow that, and I remember products that allowed connection of just a keyboard/monitor (maybe via USB?) to the host PC, but I don't know if they're still available, or where to go. Its been a few years...

Also, terminal services aren't cheap on Win2K server.

Mike.

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Virtually? Do you mean have the extra sessions active in windows on the server's console? If so, it's technically possible, I think. Haven't heard of a program to do it however.

I think you can have multiple TS sessions active concurrently on a remote PC.

TS isn't cheap. IIRC, for 5 users (the minimum, I recall) the license is over $750. If the above is available, I don't know if you'd be able to get away without a license (after the 90-day trial of course). Administrative mode won't work either, as activating the admin console remotely disables it locally, at least as I remember.

Mike.

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On 2k (don't know about 2k3) you can have as many connections as you want - just every 90 days you have to fix the registry in the client pc.
[/been there, done that]

Mike.

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Hmmm, thats kinda not what i was asking for. You guys are talking about normal server and normal dummy terminal, as normal i mean that they are two seperate physical computers; however i'm looking to run a virtual server using software like virtual pc or something that does the same thing, and also run dummy terminal virtually. Is that possible?

Huh? I'm lost now. I gave you the "It's technically possible but I don't know of any products to do it" answer to running virtual sessions on the console. Now you want a virtual server on the server??? [/boggle]

If I can ask, why would you need either or both of them? I can't think of a reason...

Mike.

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Well put in a a 4gb hard drive and do a fresh install.. you can't do what you're talking about.. it wouldn't run good at all.

They have demo cds that have precoded things you can do.. you load the CD and it gives you a virtual desktop of a server, but you can't do anything but look around with it.

If he was running XP Pro, it comes with a free copy of IIS. That would do for a server, but he still needs to isolate his console session from the server (i.e. he can't log on to his own system). I'm sure he could get some old computer cheap (under $100) and have his remote up in no time. Then just hook them via TCP/IP and log on from the terminal.

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