Strategy to Remote Desktop multiple users simultanously

I have a about 10 quite old WinXP PC's whose owners now moved offsite but
still access documents and applications remotely using Remote Desktop (RDP)
from their Laptops. Pretty infrequent access. I wanted to consolidate all
this data on a single server where each person could now login using RDP.
What's the best solution? Unfortunaltely WinXP wont allow multiple users to
login at the same time.

What server type should I be looking at? I have max 10 users and not more
than 3 RDP at the same time.

I installed Win Small Business Server but could only RDP to it as admin.
User account RDP always failed for lack of sufficient privilages. After
lots of debugging I suspect that Win SBS is wrong for me. It does too many
other things: e.g. runs IIS, dhcp, and other stuff. I believe it set itself
as a Domain Controller too.

What seems the best way to go? Is Win Home Server going to do what I need ,
maybe? Unfortunately I cannot find a spec. on how many simultanous RDP users
it supports. What'd be nice is a server that is an end in itself. A lot of
SBS stuff looks like a gateway to other PCs.

I am only used to doing Remote Dsktop; but SBS seemed to be trying to do
VLAN's, Remote Services and  a bunch of stuff I am doubtful I need.

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Rahul

You want some sort of Terminal Server is you are going to be using RDP.

You want some sort of Terminal Server is you are going to be using RDP.

There are other solutions such as VPN.

The proper answer is a terminal server, but licensing is costly and it

The proper answer is a terminal server, but licensing is costly and it is
fairly complex to set-up.

Other option might be a virtual-machine host with three copies of XP
running. This way you might be able to re-use your existing XP licences,
depending on licence type. A reasonable spec processor (say dualcore 3GHz or
better) will support 3-5 virtual machines at acceptable speed for most
purposes.

Options for a host are Linux or Windows (XP or standard server) running
VMWare Server (Free) or VMWare ESX on bare metal. Or VirtualBox. Microsoft's
Virtual PC is useable, and easier to set-up, but its performance falls-off
rapidly if you launch multiple VM's. I find that VMWare Server 1.x is still
hard to beat for performance.

Unfortunately SBS is not ideal for this kind of setup, you want a host with
the bare minimum of overheads.