AuoCAD 2004 machine won't contact FlexLM serever

Here's a post from October regarding 1.5.-16:

tabboy:
I found the problem to be caused by Spyware that corrupted the TCP/IP stack.
I first ran Ad-Aware, which made TCP/IP networking unavailable. Then I
reset the TCP/IP stack using the directions found here:
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;817571
MS knowledge base article 817571.

 

Drew,

Thankyou very much I was able to recity the problem in about 15 minutes.

Just for intrests sake I am curios of your place of origin eg I assume that
you are located some where in the western part of the world (probably the
US) judging by the time difference. I am loctaed in Darwin, that's Autralia
by the way and good local help can be a bit hard if not impossible to find.
This experience would be an excellent piece of amunition if ever someone
told me I should use this medium for help, or even if I was asked about the
pros and cons of discussion groups.

Cheers,

Daniel.

 

Hi Daniel,

We're located just outside of San Francisco, California.

These discussion groups indeed are an indispensable tool for troubleshooting
Autodesk products.

Cadapps seems to be a pretty good reseller in Australia:
http://www.cadapps.com.au/ca/
They're only a couple thousand miles away.

Drew Burgasser
www.cadmasters.com

 

Sorry for the rant below it is an extract of an email I sent to another
colleauge.

Please find attached 4 off Jpegs of the error that appears. Number 4 is the
error that would normally appear if the machine failed to obtain a license.

There were licenses available athe time as we had kicked off 2 users so
there is only 7 of 9 licenses in use, to make sure the FlexLM server was
restarted as well.

We can successfully ping the Flex LM server by IP and Name and have accessed
files on that server directly with the machine.

I have done a reinstall, re-entered the hosts files and rebooted the machine
and Flex LM server, I have also copied the License.LIC file from another
machine. I have also setup a fresh profile on the machine to see if it was
profile related, but still no change.

The last time ACAD was used on this machine may have been 2 weeks ago.

Any thoughts towards a solution would be great.

Background information for others, this machine had successfully run AutoCAD
for a while, there has been no hardware changes made. To the best of my
knowledge there has been no software changes either, but obviously this
dosen't work for a reason. Hardware configeration is below.

File Server:
Win NT - supports about 40 machines - 20 or so activley using AutoCAD, no
problems with other machines or in the past. It is due for decomission next
year but I don't belive there is any problems here.

FlexLM Server:
Old P2 166 machine. Has been used for the last two years in this role.
Continues to serve other mnachines.

Desktop PC:
One of 6 identical machine that work.
P4 2.5 GHz, 512MB, 40 GB HDD, 64MB Graphics card, IBM Intel Pro1000 network
Card.
Windows XP SP1 (one of the few machines in the office that don't have SP2
(all of which work))

Cheers,

Daniel Bennett