Hello Christine, I will re-look.
Christopher
Thursday, May 11, 2006, 9:23:02 AM, you wrote:
> Maybe check your setenv.bat? It might not be pointing to the right license server.
> And if you're not sure what the setenv.bat is, I recommend you have
> a look at the Setup Guide. It might help you find the source of the problem.
> Thanks,
> Christine
> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-xsi(at)Softimage.COM [mailto:owner-xsi(at)Softimage.COM] On Behalf Of Chris
> Posted At: Wednesday, May 10, 2006 2:49 PM
> Posted To: xsi
> Conversation: Re[2]: 1 licence for two different versions
> Subject: Re[2]: 1 licence for two different versions
> To all: Alright I read all your answers and I understand it.
> First I never was going to run (2) XSI versions at the same time. Second why do I get the error:
> Error: there is no interactive licence to run XSI
> And i'm not running 4.2 & 5.1 at the same time. I'm just loading up
> 5.1 with no 4.2 running. What am I doing wrong, when under new
> licence for 5.1, version 4.2 loads up fine. When I try to run *just*
> 5.1 I get this error ?
> Christopher
> Wednesday, May 10, 2006, 7:41:19 AM, you wrote:
>> If you've payed to upgrade to 5, you've still only got a license to
>> run
>> 1 XSI, no matter which version that is.
>> If you bought a brand new copy of 5, then clearly you could still run
>> one 4.2 and also your new version 5 at the same time.
>> Personally, I'm not sure where the confusion is?
>> Tim Leydecker wrote:
>>> (this isn´t my thread, it´s Chris´)
>>>
>>> Thanks for the details about the consequences of the licensing
>>> scheme, I had assumed SPM and FlexLM to work identical, e.g. I could
>>> run two 4.5 Maya licenses here using one 4.5 and 6.0 if my licenses
>>> wouldn´t be nodelocked anyway but floating :-)
>>>
>>> Good to know this wouldn´t work with XSI, e.g.you had upgraded a
>>> licensefile and explicitely get one interactive license granted in
>>> that.
>>> Counting per machine but made to block different builds to run in a
>>> simultaneous session from one interactive license.
>>>
>>> This isn´t ideal as it would obviously be desireable to have both
>>> builds open when transfering things from old>new for fixing
>>> inconveniences introduced through new functionality or changed featuresets.
>>>
>>> tim
>>>
>>> P.S: I´d find it building customer relationship to allow *build up*
>>> of licenses but I can understand it would be commercially stressing...
>>>
>>> ----- Original Message ----- From: "kim aldis" <kim(at)cg-soup.com>
>>> To: <XSI(at)Softimage.COM>
>>> Sent: Wednesday, May 10, 2006 12:07 PM
>>> Subject: RE: 1 licence for two different versions
>>>
>>>
>>>> The rules are that one user/machine combination only takes one
>>>> token, no matter how many instances of xsi you use. However, it does
>>>> seem that the rule doesn't cross version boundaries and running 5.1
>>>> alongside 4.2 won't work if you have a single token. With that
>>>> caveat, old versions of xsi will run from newer tokens, so 4.2 will
>>>> run from a 5.1 token provided 5.1 isn't running. Which is annoying.
>>>>
>>>> Except on linux where a second xsi will crash the prior version.
>>>> That's a
>>>> bug, though.
>>>>
>>>>> -----Original Message-----
>>>>> From: owner-xsi(at)Softimage.COM
>>>>> [mailto:owner-xsi(at)Softimage.COM] On Behalf Of Sandy E. Sutherland
>>>>> Sent: 10-May-2006 10:49
>>>>> To: XSI(at)Softimage.COM
>>>>> Subject: RE: 1 licence for two different versions
>>>>>
>>>>> Don't know about this - If you BOUGHT 4.2 and then BOUGHT
>>>>> 5.01 - then you can get Softimage to generate you a key with both
>>>>> in - but if you bought 4.2 and UPGRADED it to 5.01 - then you can
>>>>> run only 1 seat at a time - unless of course this is on 1 machine -
>>>>> where you should be able to run 2 or more XSI at the same time -
>>>>> THIS IS ON THE SAME MACHINE!!!!
>>>>> I am presuming this, as I do not run 2 XSIs at the same time
>>>>> - do not work that way!!
>>>>>
>>>>> S.
>>>>
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