"Shenan Stanley" <newshelper@gmail.com> wrote in message
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> You should not expect a Server Operating system and a Workstation
operating
> System to have the same feature sets.
>
> Windows XP Professional (an upgrade from Windows 2000 Professional
> workstation) allows Remote Desktop where Windows 2000 Professional
> (workstation) does not even have that capability. Only the server version
> of Windows 2000 had Terminal Services. You were comparing Apples and
> Oranges in the first place. (Server vs. workstation OS.)

You are making generalizations. Those aren't useful in the context of a
discussion about specific features.

It's a legitimate requirement for a workstation product to have a secure
administration mode for that product. It's bad reasoning to say that they
should cripple the current workstation product because the former
workstation product was even more crippled.

Any workstation needs administration. And as any good UNIX administrator
can tell you, you should never login to a primary console session as
administrator. Using the the Windows Run As command while logged in as a
user helps, but it's often more useful to have a background administrative
session going at the same time that you are logged in as a user. Since
Microsoft pretends to care about security these days, they should learn
something from the competition in this case.

I'm not asking for terminal services as an application server on Windows XP.
That is something you should certainly only get in the server version of the
product. I'm asking for one miserable concurrent administrative login
session, and I'm asking Microsoft to do all of its users a favor and put
that requirement in for a future update of Windows XP. It's not something
we should have to be downloading hacked beta code to do (although I
appreciate your letting me know about that option).

--
Will