On 02/13/03 6:10 AM, "Laurie A. Duncan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On 2/13/03 8:59 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] typeth: > >>> Given that this is true, how would one do so if both laptop and desktop are >>> connected to the LAN simultaneously? >>> >>> (And, yes, I do know the one setting in OSX that prevents Office:Mac from >>> checking serial numbers over the network.) >> >> It's a smart check. It knows that one machine is a desktop and the other a >> laptop and allows both copies of Office to function. Try it. > > I don't think so. I HAVE tried it many many times. The same version of > Office X with the same serial number cannot be run on both a laptop and a > desktop over the same network (unless the ports are blocked to keep Office > from seeing the other machine - which I have done for convenience sake). I just ran into the same problem tonight. I have been running Office X SR 1 on my G4/867 minitower at home. I just brought home a new Powerbook G4 (12.1") and installed Office X on it. Both Macs are connected to my home ethernet, running on the LAN side of my SonicWALL SOHO/10 firewall-router. When I tried to open Word or Excel on the Powerbook, I got a message reporting that I have "exceeded the number of installations permitted by the license agreement," and all I could do was quit. At the time I had Entourage open on the minitower. When I closed Entourage, I could run Office on the Powerbook. So it appears that the MS license agreement allows me to legally INSTALL the software on both machines. But there is a net-sniffer that prevents me from USING any Office programs simultaneously on both machines, even if the running programs are not the same. Is this correct, or is something misbehaving in my installs? If the sniffer is programmed to recognize Mac models, and permit a laptop to be used with a desktop model, how do we teach it to recognize a newly released model (like the 12.1" PB G4)? -- Julian Vrieslander <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- To unsubscribe: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> archives: <http://www.mail-archive.com/entourage-talk%40lists.letterrip.com/> old-archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/entourage-talk%40lists.boingo.com/>
