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Is there any specific technology that allows me to multiple login to the same computer? This is useful when I have only one license for an application, and I need multiple users to access it simultaneously. The fact that I have only once license, one installation eases the upgrade and maintenance too. I am using Windows
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I know that some users of a software product that my employer sells are installing the application in a Terminal Server environment, with multiple users logging into the same system through remote desktop/terminal services applications. This seems to provide them with the same solution that you're looking for. Unfortunately for those customers, we don't support this solution so if they have any installation problems or other conflicts, they'll have to solve it themselves or pay an additional fee for extra support. (Because we might need to hire a specialist to solve it for them.) These users do make sure they've purchased multiple licenses, which is a good thing since the application does check how many users are using the specific version. Our software will block any access if the number of users exceeds the number of licenses. The application that you want to share might have the same restriction. | |||
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Assuming you are using Windows you can use Remote Desktop on a Server OS to handle this. Pro editions don't allow multiple users to login at once. | |||||||||||||
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Contact the vendor and ensure your license allows what you are trying to achieve and that they support this configuration, so that if things dont work as expected or some other issues arise (ie: application configuration corruption, multiple copies not instantiated) you can get some help. Also test this in a test environment with multiple users simulation real work loads to ensure it does operate at a multi-user level if supported by the company that supports it. If the company does not support this, or it violates your license then you possibly could look at using a virtual environment that is created by the IT department and rolled out to the licensed users. Then you only have to ensure each user has the latest VM for patches and updates and ensure the application writes it's data to a network share thus not having to worry about replacing the VM on the clients machine anytime you need to provide some fixes or hotfixes. Your requirements may vary and none of this information may help you in your requirements but it may give you some food for thought :) | |||
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Microsoft actually built this functionality into Windows, and intentionally associates a given user session with a "Desktop" resource. When you use Remote Desktop (a.k.a Terminal Services) to connect to a Windows computer, that connection is associated with a different "Desktop" and therefore runs completely separately from someone logged in at the console or on another remote session. It goes likewise for Fast User Switching. However, the sales and marketing part of the company noted that if two people are logged on to the computer at the same time, it's kind of like running two copies of Windows simultaneously, even though you've only paid for one. So the consumer versions of Windows restrict you to one user logged on at a time. When someone else logs on, all existing sessions are suspended. This isn't a technical limitation, it's an artificially-imposed restriction. The "Server" versions of Windows generously allow you to have two users logged on to a single server simultaneously. You can even have two instances of the same user logged on at once, and the desktop sessions will be kept separate. | |||
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