CONFIGURING NETWORK LIC UNDER IP GROUPINGS WITH DIFFERENT SUBNETS THROUGH A ROUTER WHEN SERVER NAME IS NOT RECOGNICED

Hi there.... This is one of those really weird cases, those that you rum into something completely different that a regular Network Lic setup, This is from one of our Central American Customers for our partner company Down To Earth Technologies, they are an Autodesk Authorized Distributor for Central America and the Caribbean. The situation was a fallow, the customer wanted to install 25 Network License without having a fisical server setup.... everything was done through a router, not mapping drives at all, and they wanted to use an IP address to access the License Manager, which represent quiet a challenge, for the way that the LM Tools work, the Deployment wasn't able to access the information and it was rolling back...

This is how we were able to make it work...

Go to ...

C:\Windows\System32\drivers\etc\hosts

- Open with note pad the hosts file

- Add to the list, the IP address (TAB) server name save ... it should look some like this...

- Also add system variable ACADSERVER = server name

That should do it...It worked fro us... Hope this will give you some ideas, to work around your problems... Courtesy of James Cuervo, DTE Autodesk License Compliance Specialist