FlexLM Errors

[Anonymous]

Greetings I have a 4 licenses of Map5 . The Licenses have been installed for the past year and worked properly ever since Few days ago it just stopped giving licenses to the clients The FlexLM license is on the Server Win 2000, all clients are on Win Pro 2000 and have been installed from the Client Image of the server The problem is the client cannot find the license even though the networking can see the server and the FlexLM directory It does this it asks for : FlexLM License finder : I enter the name of the license server And then it looks for it then it gives me the following: FlexLM License manager !! Server ("hostname") did not respond within 5 seconds, this server may not exist, or communication are not possible at this time, see your administrator for assistance. When I put cancel it gives me the following : Autodesk Map 5 : The network license manger was not able to get a valid license. If this problem continues please contact your system admin error (12200,5,-96) One PC client on the same network is working whereas on the other clients are not. I tried to reinstall from the image once more but it did not function. There is a communication problem, but what?// I asked the client if they changed anything , they responded negatively The FlexLM license manager reads the license OK Today When I enter the client it first of all gives amessage as such: Failed to update the system . Please try using RegEdit Then it gives me the famous message Specify license server / Specify the license file And it searches with no result When I cancel the dialoge box It gives an error 1200,5,-96 Can anybody help please Thanks Can you help me please Thanks Michael Younan GSE gse@gsecc.com

[Anonymous]

Michael,

It looks like you have several issues going on
there.  If you are getting an error about failing to update the system
registry then you either have a use rights problem (your users need to be power
user on W2K) or possibly a corrupt registry.  As far as getting the license
finder goes, your description makes me suspect that you may have name resolution
problems.  It is easy to get fooled here.  Being able to browse the
server in Explorer does not prove TCP/IP name resolution.  Try pinging the
server from the workstation by hostname.  If that does not work you found
your problem.  If ping appears to work, note the IP address echoed back and
check it against the actual IP address of the server, make sure they are the
same.  If ping indicates name resolution problems you will need to work
with your site network administrator to fix it.  Also see the following
document which discusses other causes and resolutions:

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Jerry Milana

Autodesk Professional Services

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Greetings
I have a 4 licenses of Map5 . The Licenses have been installed for the past
year and worked properly ever since Few days ago it just stopped giving
licenses to the clients The FlexLM license is on the Server Win 2000, all
clients are on Win Pro 2000 and have been installed from the Client Image of
the server The problem is the client cannot find the license even though the
networking can see the server and the FlexLM directory It does this it asks
for : FlexLM License finder : I enter the name of the license server And then
it looks for it then it gives me the following: FlexLM License manager !!
Server ("hostname") did not respond within 5 seconds, this server may not
exist, or communication are not possible at this time, see your administrator
for assistance. When I put cancel it gives me the following : Autodesk Map 5 :
The network license manger was not able to get a valid license. If this
problem continues please contact your system admin error (12200,5,-96) One PC
client on the same network is working whereas on the other clients are not. I
tried to reinstall from the image once more but it did not function. There is
a communication problem, but what?// I asked the client if they changed
anything , they responded negatively The FlexLM license manager reads the
license OK Today When I enter the client it first of all gives amessage as
such: Failed to update the system . Please try using RegEdit Then it gives me
the famous message Specify license server / Specify the license file And it
searches with no result When I cancel the dialoge box It gives an error
1200,5,-96 Can anybody help please Thanks Can you help me please Thanks
Michael Younan GSE gse@gsecc.com

[Anonymous]

Thanks for your response It seems that what you wrote was perfect We had to uninstall all the AutoCAD stuff rom the server , and reinstall as a new installation And it works Michael Younan GSE