XP Unlimited – cheap alternative to Terminal Services

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Are you using or thinking about implementing a Terminal server then you may know this is neither easy nor cheap. Well me to the rescue (or well rather a link to the rescue), there is actually a cheaper and easier alternative that will make any Windows XP, 2003 or 2008 into a Terminal server without the expensive TS licensing, read more at; http://www.xpunlimited.nl While writing this post I also stumbled across this; http://www.elusiva.com/products/TerminalServerPro.aspx (Another TS alternative). And the older free hack for Windows XP sp2 (dont know if it work after SP3); http://concurrentremotesessions.netfirms.com/
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2X SecureRDP for Windows Terminal Services

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So you are using remote desktop/terminal services and you are worried about security, well there are several things you can do to secure it among the oldies change the port number from 3389.  But hold on to your horses, now there is a whole range of new options via a new utility from 2x called SecureRDP, here you are presented with options to restrict IP, MAC, Computername and a combination of these.

If you use RDP you NEED to check this out, and best of all its FREE 😀

http://www.2x.com/securerdp/

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2000 res kit utilities

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Here’s a link to where you can download Win 2000 resource kit, it contains a bunch of interesting utilities.  One utility in particular is interesting; PassPropthis will help change the restriction so the Administrator account can actually be locked out (not for physical logon, but for remote access), neat..

For the rest or the utilities;
http://www.petri.co.il/download_free_reskit_tools.htm

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