Autocad 2002 + Win2kpro

[Anonymous]

I have just setup and installed autocad 2002 for network licence
deployment. I can run it on windows xp systems, and windows 98 systems,
but for the life of me i can't get it working on a win2000pro machine.
The licpath file is correct. I can ping the license server via the ip
address, and don't have dns set up to locate the server by name. All of
the deployments so far have been from the same install image and have
gone without a hitch except the windows 2000 professional machine.
Any ideas as to what to try would be helpful.

[Anonymous]

Your users need to be power users or administrators in Win2k. I imagine
that the same would be true of XP, but I haven't checked. Try upgrading the
user to a local administrator, and see if it works then, and then downgrade
themto power user and see if it still works.



"Andrew Mallette" wrote in message
news:3CFD15FD.EBC8B5E6@henryadams.com...
> I have just setup and installed autocad 2002 for network licence
> deployment. I can run it on windows xp systems, and windows 98 systems,
> but for the life of me i can't get it working on a win2000pro machine.
> The licpath file is correct. I can ping the license server via the ip
> address, and don't have dns set up to locate the server by name. All of
> the deployments so far have been from the same install image and have
> gone without a hitch except the windows 2000 professional machine.
> Any ideas as to what to try would be helpful.
>

[Anonymous]

Hi,

is the problem that the W2K workstations cannot get a license? If this is
the case and you said that you don't have DNS running, try this:

on a W2K workstation go to My Computer --> Properties --> Advanced -->
Environment Variables and add the following variable:

LM_LICENSE_FILE

and give it a value equal to the IP-address of the License server.

Tell us what happens!

Cheers,

Petri Ahava
CAD-Q Finland

"Andrew Mallette" wrote in message
news:3CFD15FD.EBC8B5E6@henryadams.com...
> I have just setup and installed autocad 2002 for network licence
> deployment. I can run it on windows xp systems, and windows 98 systems,
> but for the life of me i can't get it working on a win2000pro machine.
> The licpath file is correct. I can ping the license server via the ip
> address, and don't have dns set up to locate the server by name. All of
> the deployments so far have been from the same install image and have
> gone without a hitch except the windows 2000 professional machine.
> Any ideas as to what to try would be helpful.
>

[Anonymous]

Hi Andrew,

Also, make sure Windows 2000 Service Pack 2 has been applied. There were
a number of strange little network problems fixed in that update.

Chris

"Andrew Mallette" wrote in message
news:3CFD15FD.EBC8B5E6@henryadams.com...
> I have just setup and installed autocad 2002 for network licence
> deployment. I can run it on windows xp systems, and windows 98 systems,
> but for the life of me i can't get it working on a win2000pro machine.
> The licpath file is correct. I can ping the license server via the ip
> address, and don't have dns set up to locate the server by name. All of
> the deployments so far have been from the same install image and have
> gone without a hitch except the windows 2000 professional machine.
> Any ideas as to what to try would be helpful.
>

[Anonymous]

I have fixed the problem by assigning an ip address to this particular
workstation instead of letting the dhcp server assign one. I will try the
suggestions above to free that ip address as i don't want my users having full
access to the internet.
The license server is totally up to date with patches, and any time there
are new ones the windows update notification lets me know.
The work stations are also patched fully and all users are administrator
equivalants.

Thanks for the suggestions as i'm still sorting through small issues with
windows XP and 2000. It would be really nice if M$ would stop changing so many
basic things with each OS change.