Using Windows Terminal
Server as a client to the z/OS SMB
server
When a PC connects to the z/OS® SMB
server, each PC usually has its own communications session to the z/OS SMB server. See Figure 1 for an example. Figure 1. SMB server with a single
user session on each communications session
When the Windows Terminal
Server is used by a PC, multiple PC users connect to the Windows Terminal Server. They see another
entire Windows system screen
in a window of their local PC. This window represents applications
running on the Windows Terminal
Server machine. If the PC user issues a net use command inside that
window, that net use command will actually be executed on the Windows Terminal Server machine.
The Windows Terminal Server
machine can create multiple user sessions (one for each Windows Terminal Server client) on a single
communication session to the z/OS SMB
server. See Figure 2 for
an example. Figure 2. SMB
server with multiple, concurrent users on a single communications
session