Hi Jason, Thanks for the reply.
When I pinged the server and client machines I did it by host name and I was
able to ping the client from the server and the client was able to ping the
server.
The clients do not have static IP's but the server does.
Yes there is a router between all the buildings. As you can probably tell,
I'm not a networking guru but I have been on the phone with those that are.
To complicate things right now, our company is finally going through a
*long* awaited switch from an IBM Token Ring to Ethernet, which means I'll
have to reinstall the AdLM when they switch out the Token Ring card for an
Ethernet card (might happen today). Good timing considering we wont be able
to get authorization codes for R14 after the end of the month.
It is still baffling to me as to why we didn't have any problems when these
people were running Windows 98. It was the switch to Windows 2000 that
caused them to hang on the splash screen but by adding the ACADSERVER
variable it *fixed* the problem on two of the three.
Anyway, I forwarded your reply to our networking people and we'll see if
this helps them any at all.
Thanks again for your help.
Hopefully our transition from Token Ring to Ethernet goes smoothly (wish me
luck) 🙂
--
Don Jacobsen
drjacobsen@energy-northwest.com
"jason martin" wrote in message
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> Don -
> Acadserver variable is required when the client machine is not in the same
subnet as the adlm server.
>
> You said that you can ping the server, but can you ping it by host name,
or just by ip address (hostname is the lower case version
> of the netbios name).
>
> It sounds like dns problems, which are always, uhhh, ?fun? to trouble
shoot. Try pinging by host name. I that doesn't work then the
> adlm won't work. Since they are in another building I'm guessing that
there is a router between the buildings. Is the router
> blocking any udp ports (1422 perhaps??). Do you have dns servers on your
network or are you relying on wins resolution to get the
> server name?
>
> You might try (with your admin's permission) creating (or actually
modifying) the host file in the winnt\system32\drivers\etc folder
> to include the ip address and hostname of the adlm server and see if the
clients can find it there.
>
> hth
>
> jason martin
> frankfurt-short-bruza
>
> "Don Jacobsen" wrote in message
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> > I have some users running Windows 2000 and Autocad R14.01 (network
version).
> > Some of the users reside in a different building than where are license
> > server is.
> > Autocad was hanging on the splash screen on these computers, we had to
shut
> > down the computer and restart.
> > I set the ACADSERVER variable on those machines and it solved the
problem
> > with two users and at first I thought the third user was taken care of
also
> > (Autocad started and ran just fine). But on the next day it hung up on
the
> > splash screen again. I checked to make sure that the ACADSERVER was
still
> > set and it is.
> >
> > Since I don't have admin access (nor do the users), I set the ACADSERVER
> > variable in the Autoexec.bat instead of going through Control Panel,
System,
> > Advanced Tab, environment variables, etc.
> >
> > Now we also have people running on Win2k machines (Acad r14.01) that are
in
> > the same building as the license server, they do not require the
ACADSERVER
> > variable. We also have users in other buildings running Autocad R14.01
on
> > Win98, they too do not require the ACADSERVER variable.
> > It seems to be a combination of them being in a different building AND
> > running Win2K.
> >
> > All users have"power users" access when running Win2K. I have also made
> > sure they have the newer adesksys.dll file. I have also been able to
ping
> > the server from the client machine and vice versa.
> >
> > One other note, when I first installed Autocad on the users machine that
is
> > still experiencing the hang up, Autocad ran a few times (with out the
> > ACADSERVER variable). It wasn't until he started hanging up that I set
the
> > environment variable and like I mentioned, it worked for one day.
> >
> > Any ideas?
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Don Jacobsen
> > drjacobsen@energy-northwest.com
> >
> >
>
>
