sounds like you got it under control. we have 4 machines running protel
99se and two licenses. (no fancy setup, just straight install) if two
licenses are used at the same time, a pop up window tells you you are
exceeding maximum users. if you only run selected servers on selected
machines (e.g. sch on one pcb on the other) 1 license is good enough.
Chris Hower
DPS Telecom CAD
(559)455-1600 Ext. 136
www.dpstele.com
-----Original Message-----
From: Bagotronix Tech Support [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Thursday, May 24, 2001 11:11 AM
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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