Got it. Out of the tens of torrents your are currently downloading, none of
them are AutoCAD.

Your hear that Autodesk? None.



On Tue, Jul 26, 2011 at 3:35 PM, Jonathan Link <[email protected]>wrote:

> And by the way, that's a joke.
>
>
> On Tue, Jul 26, 2011 at 3:32 PM, Jonathan Link <[email protected]>wrote:
>
>> That reminds me, I need to check my torrents...
>>
>> On Tue, Jul 26, 2011 at 3:25 PM, Jeff Steward <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>>> I *loathe* FLexLM.  When it works, it works, when it doesn't, you get to
>>> chase your tail all for the sake of license compliance.  Nothing like
>>> assuming your customers are thieves from the outset.
>>>
>>> -Jeff
>>>
>>>
>>> On Tue, Jul 26, 2011 at 1:49 AM, David Lum <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>
>>>> ** **
>>>>
>>>> A customer of mine runs AutoCAD, and the licensing runs on a server (PC
>>>> with AutoCAD fires up the app, the app looks to a server for a running
>>>> license service and checks out a license. I install it on PC and set up
>>>> license server (we’ll call it AutoCADServer) and works peachy for months.
>>>> Until today.****
>>>>
>>>> ** **
>>>>
>>>> AutoCADServer does DNS, DHCP, file server (for everyone) and print
>>>> server (for Win7 machines only at the moment). TheOtherServer in the same
>>>> building is an older machine and is a Domain Controller and print server 
>>>> for
>>>> about 10 XP machines but not much else. I am going to decommission
>>>> TheOtherServer, but one step at a time so I DCPROMO it last Thursday. See
>>>> any correlation with DCPROMO and the AutoCAD PC or the license service on
>>>> AutoCADServer? Me either.****
>>>>
>>>> ** **
>>>>
>>>> I am onsite Friday AM to make sure there are no problems logging in or
>>>> printing and all is reported cool. (well, I did have to reauthorize the 
>>>> DHCP
>>>> server) Did I mention the one AutoCAD users is on vacation this day? That’s
>>>> OK I didn’t know either, but I figured it didn’t matter since I’m not
>>>> touching that server.****
>>>>
>>>> ** **
>>>>
>>>> Today I am onsite and the AutoCAD guy says he can’t use AutoCAD. I check
>>>> it out and I get a “Cannot get license from license server”. Okay fine, I
>>>> check out the FlexLM service diagnostics on  AutoCADLicense and it says all
>>>> good. Hit AutoDesk forums and they point me to log files to check out. Log
>>>> files say “Server node is down or not responding”. I do the usual restart
>>>> services check the firewall settings etc on the server. No change.****
>>>>
>>>> ** **
>>>>
>>>> The support forums (AutoDesk, IBM, ESRI and all sorts of vendors use the
>>>> FlexLM license service) **ALL** point to firewall or connectivity
>>>> issues . I turn off the firewall on the PC. No change. Off on the server. 
>>>> No
>>>> change.****
>>>>
>>>> ** **
>>>>
>>>> You probably all know Win7 has 3 kinds of network places: Domain, home
>>>> and public. Guess what? Somehow the AutoCAD PC decided it’s local network
>>>> connection is now “Public” instead of “Work”. Firewall settings are
>>>> completely different for those areas, and once I change the network to 
>>>> think
>>>> it’s back on the work LAN, poof, the firewall GPO’s properly take effect 
>>>> and
>>>> all is good.****
>>>>
>>>> ** **
>>>>
>>>> I never touched the AutoCAD PC, and the users aren’t local admins on
>>>> their box so they can’t change it. ****
>>>>
>>>> ** **
>>>>
>>>> I have a theory on what happened: For the time when the DHCP server
>>>> wasn’t operating due to not thinking it was any longer authorized, the
>>>> AutoCAD PC tried to get a DHCP address, got nothing, so made up one of it’s
>>>> own (169.x.x.x or whatever MS has them default to) and said “Yo I am now on
>>>> a Public network”, and after I fixed the DHCP issue it picked up the new IP
>>>> address but didn’t feel like changing itself back to “Domain” network.*
>>>> ***
>>>>
>>>> ** **
>>>>
>>>> Anyone know if I’m close? This one was tough because I was led all over
>>>> the place.****
>>>>
>>>> ** **
>>>>
>>>> *David Lum* *
>>>> *Systems Engineer // NWEATM
>>>> Office 503.548.5229 //* *Mobile 503.267.9764****
>>>>
>>>> ** **
>>>>
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