"Grainge, Derek"
AFAIK xwinx is a single user system. You can't run multiple sessions. Ditto VNC. Therefore neither will allow multiple Linux workstations to access a shared WIndows CD ?
For a way of running multiple copies of Windows, and clients, while only paying for one license, and still staying legal, you could try this slightly twisted solution: Buy yourself a quick PC with lots of RAM, install GNU/Linux and VMWare on it, and run as many instances of Windows as you can under VMWare before the whole thing grinds to a halt. Use VNC (Free Software) to publish the Windows sessions around your network, or possibly the VNC remote display thing, about which I know nothing. I don't know to what extent this has changed, but most Windows software used to be licensed on a per processor basis, so you should only need to buy one license for most of the software you use. With a bit of scripting, I'm sure you could get the VM's to be destroyed on log-out, and have new ones automatically launched when too few were running, so that people don't inherit earlier sessions. Cheers, Phil. -- Say no to software patents! http://petition.eurolinux.org/ |)| Philip Hands [+44 (0)20 8530 9560] http://www.hands.com/ |-| HANDS.COM Ltd. http://www.uk.debian.org/ |(| 10 Onslow Gardens, South Woodford, London E18 1NE ENGLAND