Advanced License Setup

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In X-Win32 2011 and later, licenses are installed to the local user directory in a file named License.lic by default. Advanced users may wish to install multiple licenses (for example to connect to multiple license servers) or install a license for all users. In this case, simply add a second *.lic in the license directory to make another license available

Notes on Licenses

  • Activating a license from X-Win32 will overwrite the existing license.lic file in the local user directory
  • Each license is contained in a file ending in the *.lic file extension.
  • Typically, there is only 1 license per file
  • Node locked licenses are always used before floating licenses
  • X-Win32 scans licenses in alphabetical order according to the file name. Then the license directories are scanned in the following order
    1. Local User Directory
    2. All User Directory
  • To randomize the order in which licenses are used set RLM_PATH_RANDOMIZE to 1 in the Windows Environment Variables.

For further documentation on the RLM licensing system, please see the RLM End User Manual

Floating License File Format

Floating license clients must connect to a license server. The client license file is one line and can be created by hand. The format is as follows:

HOST hostname 00000000 port

Where hostaname is the host name of the license server and port is the port number the license server is listening on (by default 5053).

Basic License Setup

For Basic License installation, please see the following articles