Please indicate which version of AutoCAD you're using. 2002 and 2004 use
FLEXlm; 2000i and earlier used Elan, that works differently.
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"c.prettyman" wrote in message
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I have set up a new license server, to replace a machine that is about to be
retired. In my previous office, I had set up two separate license servers -
a similar issue, the first one was fine, but the machine had a lot of other
things to do, so I set up a new server on another machine that was not so
loaded up. Anyway, in that office, I simply stopped the old server, started
the new one, and then replaced the licpath.lic file on everyones machine.
What was cool about that setup was that the licpath.lic file listed the new
server, and the old one, and if I had to take the server down for a while (I
never actually did, except to test this), I could simply start teh service
again on the old machine. Then, when clients booted, they would ask the
newer server for a license, and when it didn't respond, they would ask teh
old server, and it would hand out a license - so it all worked to give me a
backup license server. Pretty cool, right? So that is what I want to do
here. But it doesn't seem to work - I can replace the licpath.lic file, but
if the server listed first does not respond, AutoCAD does not look for the
second one - it asks me to specify a license server. So, what am I missing?
Is there more to setting up this secondary path than just listing two server
names in the licpath.lic file?
