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Virtual Machine license questions [message #36853] Thu, 30 October 2003 15:07 Go to next message
Harvey Rarback is currently offline  Harvey Rarback
Messages: 24
Registered: September 1998
Junior Member
Folks,

I have a couple of questions about the IDL VM. We use networked floating
licenses and have our IDL Windows clients set the environment variable
LM_LICENSE_FILE to point to our license server.

- If we run the VM with the variable set, IDL still grabs a license. We
need to delete the variable in order not to use up a floating license.

- If we try to run the VM on a Windows 2000 Server running Terminal
Services, remote users see the Alert "Unable to obtain a license to run as a
Windows Terminal Server client".


It seems to me both of these behaviors run counter to the intent of the
Virtual Machine.

Any comments?

--
--Harvey Rarback
Re: Virtual Machine license questions [message #36895 is a reply to message #36853] Tue, 04 November 2003 17:50 Go to previous message
Harvey Rarback is currently offline  Harvey Rarback
Messages: 24
Registered: September 1998
Junior Member
Folks,

I <rarback@slac.stanford.edu> wrote in message
news:bns5jr$rmm$1@news.Stanford.EDU...

> I have a couple of questions about the IDL VM. We use networked floating
> licenses and have our IDL Windows clients set the environment variable
> LM_LICENSE_FILE to point to our license server.
>
> - If we run the VM with the variable set, IDL still grabs a license. We
> need to delete the variable in order not to use up a floating license.
>
> - If we try to run the VM on a Windows 2000 Server running Terminal
> Services, remote users see the Alert "Unable to obtain a license to run as
a
> Windows Terminal Server client".
>
> It seems to me both of these behaviors run counter to the intent of the
> Virtual Machine.
>
> Any comments?

Since no one in the newsgroup had anything to say, I submitted these
conserns to RSI and
got two quick responses:

- VM grabbing the license inappropriately is a recognized bug which has
been fixed in 6.1.

- The VM currently runs for remote users of Unix, Linux and Mac OS X, so
support sees
no reason to disable VM for Windows Terminal Services; a feature request
(CR 32879) has
been submitted.

I am satisfied that RSI support is still supporting.

--Harvey Rarback
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