Pointing workstations to license sever

Hi,

I've just installed an AutoCAD 2004 license manager, which has been authorised and is up and running. I have now installed AutoCAD 2004 on a client workstation and now need to point it at the license server to pick up a license. How do I do this?

 

You need to create a network deployment on the server and install from that.
It should automaticaly find the server. If it did not you might try addding
a system variable ACADSERVER pointing to the server.

Allen

authorised and is up and running. I have now installed AutoCAD 2004 on a
client workstation and now need to point it at the license server to pick up
a license. How do I do this?

 

During the creation of Network deployment you should specify the server name
and host id, so when you install client from that deployment it will
automatically install licpath.lic file in the AutoCAD root directory which
will point your client to the server, if for some reason this file didn't
installed on your client you need to set up environment variable
ADSKFLEX_LICENSE_FILE = @servername

Hope this helps

Efim

authorised and is up and running. I have now installed AutoCAD 2004 on a
client workstation and now need to point it at the license server to pick up
a license. How do I do this?

 

Thanks for ther help.

I was kind of hoping that I could overcome this without creating a deployment. Simply by installing 2004 on a workstation manually and then pointing it to the license server afterwards.


Matt

 

It is possible... only requires some tampering with the windows registry.

After you install the software, open Regedit, and find the entries for that
particular software. Start in "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE / SOFTWARE / Autodesk /
AutoCAD / R 16.0" If you only have one subfolder named ACAD-something
that's the one you're looking for, otherwise you'll have to check the
registry key named "Location" inside each of the subfolders to find the
right one.

When you've found the subfolder that belongs to the right software version,
open the subfolder named "AdLM" inside it. Find the key named "Type" and
change its value into 25 (19 hexadecimal). I suggest that you remember what
the old setting was, just in case something gets messed up. If the
subfolder doesn't exist, create it and inside it create a new key of type
RG_DWORD and give it the name "Type".

Of course, you still have to tell AutoCAD where to look for the license,
you can do it by creating a new text file named "licpath.lic" in the
AutoCAD installation folder ("C:\Program Files\AutoCAD 2004" or something
similar) and copying into it the first line of your license file "SERVER
SOME_SERVER_NAME SOME_HEX_NUMBER" plus "USE SERVER" on the second line. The
second option is to create a environment variable as descirbed in previous
posts.

The whole procedure is, of course, undocumented and not oficially supported
), but it is quite helpful considering the time it takes to uninstall
AutoCAD, create a new deployment and then install AutoCAD again.

P.S. Sorry if I went into too much detail

 

Jukka,

please don't do it, because you will loose such fearless like license
borrowing and many others.

Regards,
Efim


deployment. Simply by installing 2004 on a workstation manually and then
pointing it to the license server afterwards.