Specifications

Configuring the License Server Client
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To verify that TCP/IP is used on a Windows 95/98 or Windows NT 4.0/Windows
2000 computer:
1. From the Control Panel, double-click the Network icon.
2. On the Configuration tab (or Protocols tab on Windows NT/2000), look
at the list of Network components installed to see if TCP/IP is listed.
3. Select the TCP/IP component and then bring up the Properties dialog
box. Check the subnet mask. The client computer and any license servers
it intends to use should be on the same subnet. If not, you must use the
LSHOST or LSFORCEHOST environment variables to contact the
proper license server.
Note If you are using DHCP (dynamic host configuration protocol), contact your
network administrator for help in determining this information. Note that
we recommend static, fixed IP addresses to give the best performance, and
that redundant license server computers must have fixed IP addresses.
Locate the License Server Computer
The application program must be able to identify a license server. This can be
done by having the application broadcast over the network for a license server or
by providing the application with the name of the license server computer. In
most cases, it’s quicker to let the application use the broadcast method of finding
a license server. With this method, you can change license servers at any time
and no changes are required at the client computers.
Sometimes you may want to direct an application program to a specific license
server. This may be to done to partition clients between license servers, or
because the license server and client computer are located on different subnets or
a large network and broadcast messages are undesirable.