At 12:26 AM 11/10/99 -0500, Ian Douglas wrote:
>> Ah, I see what you are getting at. A per-executable (or whatever)
>> licensing/seat type deal? I don't know of any way to do this (aside from
>> putting each binary to license into a separate directory?)
>
>That defeats the purpose of 'max connections' then, doesn't it?
I thought the 'max connections' was per share? If so, my suggestion was to
have a granularity of one licenseable object/share. Is this not what you
were trying to do?
>Essentially, what we want to perform is a network installation of large
>commercial software products and restrict their use on the server by setting
>a maximum number of connections. Currently, installing a copy of WordPerfect
>on our server theoretically allows access to the program by multiple
>workstations despite the actual ownership of less than half a dozen
>licenses.
>
>Does anyone have any ideas?