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Re: MacOS X Server licence limit, what does it cover?

On Wednesday, May 7, 2003, at 11:00 AM, Frank Lowney wrote:

I'm curious about how limiting a 10 user licence really is. Can anyone here point me to a chart or matrix or something that shows clearly how this limit affects the operation of a server?

For example, would it make sense to limit the number of people who have access to a website for content creation purposes when this isn't limited in plain vanilla MacOS X? Would it make sense to limit the mail server to 10 accounts?

My licence is unlimited so I'm not able to test this by experiment but a colleague wants to give MacOS X a try with a 10 user licence and is asking me about this. Please CC any replied directly to me.

TIA for any light shed on this.

The 10 user license does not affect Windows, FTP, Mail, Web, or DNS connections. The 10 user license only affects how many AFP connections (e.g. "file sharing") that the server will work with. So, if you have an office with 3 Windows PC and 9 Macs doing simple file sharing, then a 10 client license will be suitable.

However, one thing to be aware of ... individual volumes are separate connections.
So, if in the above scenario, if two of the Macs needs to mount 2 share points each, you would run out of licenses and the 11th connection would be refused.

Another thing to be aware of is automounting share points for Mac OS X clients (or Macintosh Manager) consume multiple connections for each client (one for each automounted sharepoint).

HTH,

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Eli Boaz <email@hidden>
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