Hello
I contacted Protel a couple of months ago and had several general questions
regarding usage of 99SE in a floating license arrangement. I was told to go
ahead and load on multiple machines on the same LAN. Then 99SE would
broadcast onto the LAN and check for a valid license. We did a test case
here in the office and started up 3 sessions with only two licenses and 99SE
never blinked. So much for the license checking on the LAN.
I am also curious if anyone else is currently using 99SE in a true floating
license arrangement. I was going to approach management about getting
additional licenses for our office use and putting them "on the LAN", but am
in holding pattern for now.
Has anybody else asked Protel about this and received a consistent answer?
Charlie Upton
NSWC-Crane
-----Original Message-----
From: Bagotronix Tech Support [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Thursday, May 24, 2001 1:11 PM
To: Protel EDA Forum
Subject: [PEDA] 99SE setup advice wanted
Hello, all:
I finally (!) got the new PC I have been seeking for 3 months now. It's a
dual 1 GHz Pentium-III with 512MB SDRAM-133 and 60GB UDMA/100 HDD, Matrox
G450 dual-head video. Awesome hardware! AMD Athlon and DDR lost out
because there aren't any dual-CPU DDR chipsets yet, as far as I know. The
new PC has W2K - running good so far!
Anyways, I finally have the machine I need to upgrade to Protel 99SE. I am
ready to install it, but I have some questions which are not answered by the
manual (yes, I did RTFB).
I need to set up Protel on 2 workstations, but I have only one license. I
know that some other CAD software has done this with "floating" licenses
that enable the CAD to be used on only one workstation at a time.
1) Does Protel do this?
2) If so, how do I set it up to do it? Is it as simple as loading a copy
of 99SE on each machine, and the program automatically sends a broadcast
onto the LAN to see if another copy is already in use? I seem to remember
some Protel users having grief about floating licenses some time back.
3) If there is a license manager server program, where does it have to
reside? In our office we use a Linux Samba server, not an NT box. So if
the license manager has to run on a NT server, we can't do that. (For those
who don't know about Linux, a Linux Samba server acts just like a Windows
SMB server; Networking Neighborhood, it's really cool).
4) Where do I put the CAD libraries (SCH, PCB, etc.) so that they can be
shared by both users? Can I just put them in a shared directory on our
Samba server? We put other files there OK.
Thanks in advance for your help.
Best regards,
Ivan Baggett
Bagotronix Inc.
website: www.bagotronix.com
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