Designing Your Network for Terminal Server Access

You need to consider your network infrastructure when deploying Terminal Services. For the most part, the issues involved are general network design concerns, but Terminal Services requires a few special considerations.

Terminal Services cannot pass the IP address of individual clients to an application. Multi-user applications that require each user to have a unique IP address do not work properly in a Terminal Services environment because every user appears to originate from the IP address of the server itself. For instance, certain firewalls and legacy hosts use the IP address of the client to determine security and physical location You might need to alter plans to use Terminal Services to support these applications.

Conversely, it is important to be aware that all users will share the same IP connection from a given Terminal server. Applications or services that subvert, lock, or monopolize that resource can interfere with the general operation of the server.

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