He wasn't promoting illegal use of Protel. The License is for x number of
instances of a Protel Server running concurrently. If you are running only
Schematic than it is legal for someone else to run PCB on the same license.
Therefore the engineer can be using Schematic while the designer is laying
out the board on one legal license.
In my opinion Protel has one of the nicest floating license architectures
going. It automatically floats the licenses, so there is no need to install
a license server, and it makes installation of other workstations easy
since you can install the licenses on one machine than run setup on another
and it will get the licenses for you. Also when a license violation is
found it allows you to continue with nag messages so you can finish up what
you were doing and get out without losing data. This is good licensing:
It identifies and complains about license violations, but takes into
account the fact that sometimes you start a server accidentally (It was
open when you closed and therfore opens at startup) and lets you recover
back to legality without data loss.
Rob
"Jaurique, Brad" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> on 05/24/2001 03:22:59 PM
Please respond to "Protel EDA Forum" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "'Protel EDA Forum'" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
cc: (bcc: Rob LaMoreaux/DSPT)
Subject: Re: [PEDA] 99SE setup advice wanted
You shouldn't be promoting illegal use of Protel. You should always only
use what you pay for. That's why Software is so expensive. As well as
frustrating to people trying to make a living from writing it.
Anyways that's my 1/2 cent in to it.
You should contact Protel in regards to help on that issue.
-----Original Message-----
From: Chris Hower [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Thursday, May 24, 2001 11:37 AM
To: Protel EDA Forum
Subject: Re: [PEDA] 99SE setup advice wanted
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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