| Title: | Digital PATHWORKS 32 |
| Moderator: | SPELNK::curless |
| Created: | Fri Nov 01 1996 |
| Last Modified: | Fri Jun 06 1997 |
| Last Successful Update: | Fri Jun 06 1997 |
| Number of topics: | 337 |
| Total number of notes: | 1612 |
Another licensing buggette.... My laptop sits on a LAN and starts up. It requests and gets a license. I then take it to my hotel room and dial in to an exchange server. The license s/w starts up (why?), removes the license I already had and then tries to grab a new one. Does it succeed ? I doubt it but it doesn't complain. I then disconnect from the RAS (?) dialup, switch off. When I restart my laptop (still away from the office, the license s/w moans that it cannot now get a license. I have to press [OK] to continue. Well, of course it can't - it just revoked the one I had. So, next time I reconnect to the LAN, it goes through the process of finding the server, requesting the license etc etc etc. This is STUPID. Under PW95a it worked fine - why did you have to change this? I am serously under impressed by this stuff...... Alan
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| 288.1 | JAMIN::WASSER | John A. Wasser | Mon May 12 1997 14:59 | 22 | |
> My laptop sits on a LAN and starts up. It requests and gets a license. > > I then take it to my hotel room and dial in to an exchange server. The > license s/w starts up (why?), The License Transponder looks for new LANAs. When a new LANA becomes active (usualy signaling the completion of a network dial-in) it runs the License Requester. > removes the license I already had and then tries to grab a new one. It will not throw out existing licenses unless they don't match the configured license requirements (different license type or license group). Unless something dorks with the registry it should just wake up, try to validate the licenses, and exit. > Does it succeed? I doubt it but it doesn't complain. If you don't get a pop-up box telling you that it was unable to acquire a specific license then you have all of the licenses you configured for. | |||||
| 288.2 | Confused and retiring hurt ! | WOTVAX::oloras7.olo.dec.com::Sharkeya | WinPass - now free | Tue May 13 1997 04:57 | 4 |
Well, its weird - it now works like you said. But it DID revoke the 'unneeded license' when I tried it before. Alan | |||||