And by the way, that's a joke. On Tue, Jul 26, 2011 at 3:32 PM, Jonathan Link <jonathan.l...@gmail.com>wrote:
> That reminds me, I need to check my torrents... > > On Tue, Jul 26, 2011 at 3:25 PM, Jeff Steward <jstew...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> I *loathe* FLexLM. When it works, it works, when it doesn't, you get to >> chase your tail all for the sake of license compliance. Nothing like >> assuming your customers are thieves from the outset. >> >> -Jeff >> >> >> On Tue, Jul 26, 2011 at 1:49 AM, David Lum <david....@nwea.org> wrote: >> >>> ** ** >>> >>> A customer of mine runs AutoCAD, and the licensing runs on a server (PC >>> with AutoCAD fires up the app, the app looks to a server for a running >>> license service and checks out a license. I install it on PC and set up >>> license server (we’ll call it AutoCADServer) and works peachy for months. >>> Until today.**** >>> >>> ** ** >>> >>> AutoCADServer does DNS, DHCP, file server (for everyone) and print server >>> (for Win7 machines only at the moment). TheOtherServer in the same building >>> is an older machine and is a Domain Controller and print server for about 10 >>> XP machines but not much else. I am going to decommission TheOtherServer, >>> but one step at a time so I DCPROMO it last Thursday. See any correlation >>> with DCPROMO and the AutoCAD PC or the license service on AutoCADServer? Me >>> either.**** >>> >>> ** ** >>> >>> I am onsite Friday AM to make sure there are no problems logging in or >>> printing and all is reported cool. (well, I did have to reauthorize the DHCP >>> server) Did I mention the one AutoCAD users is on vacation this day? That’s >>> OK I didn’t know either, but I figured it didn’t matter since I’m not >>> touching that server.**** >>> >>> ** ** >>> >>> Today I am onsite and the AutoCAD guy says he can’t use AutoCAD. I check >>> it out and I get a “Cannot get license from license server”. Okay fine, I >>> check out the FlexLM service diagnostics on AutoCADLicense and it says all >>> good. Hit AutoDesk forums and they point me to log files to check out. Log >>> files say “Server node is down or not responding”. I do the usual restart >>> services check the firewall settings etc on the server. No change.**** >>> >>> ** ** >>> >>> The support forums (AutoDesk, IBM, ESRI and all sorts of vendors use the >>> FlexLM license service) **ALL** point to firewall or connectivity issues >>> . I turn off the firewall on the PC. No change. Off on the server. No >>> change.**** >>> >>> ** ** >>> >>> You probably all know Win7 has 3 kinds of network places: Domain, home >>> and public. Guess what? Somehow the AutoCAD PC decided it’s local network >>> connection is now “Public” instead of “Work”. Firewall settings are >>> completely different for those areas, and once I change the network to think >>> it’s back on the work LAN, poof, the firewall GPO’s properly take effect and >>> all is good.**** >>> >>> ** ** >>> >>> I never touched the AutoCAD PC, and the users aren’t local admins on >>> their box so they can’t change it. **** >>> >>> ** ** >>> >>> I have a theory on what happened: For the time when the DHCP server >>> wasn’t operating due to not thinking it was any longer authorized, the >>> AutoCAD PC tried to get a DHCP address, got nothing, so made up one of it’s >>> own (169.x.x.x or whatever MS has them default to) and said “Yo I am now on >>> a Public network”, and after I fixed the DHCP issue it picked up the new IP >>> address but didn’t feel like changing itself back to “Domain” network.** >>> ** >>> >>> ** ** >>> >>> Anyone know if I’m close? This one was tough because I was led all over >>> the place.**** >>> >>> ** ** >>> >>> *David Lum* * >>> *Systems Engineer // NWEATM >>> Office 503.548.5229 //* *Mobile 503.267.9764**** >>> >>> ** ** >>> >>> ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ >>> ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ >>> >>> --- >>> To manage subscriptions click here: >>> http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ >>> or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com >>> with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin >>> >> >> ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ >> ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ >> >> --- >> To manage subscriptions click here: >> http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ >> or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com >> with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin >> > > ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ > ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ > > --- > To manage subscriptions click here: > http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ > or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com > with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin > ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin
