Domain Controller with new licensing

[Walter Vaughan]

Nancy Palmquist wrote:
> We found that without the Netware Client the Hard Drive Serial Number 
> (Mac Address) or whatever it is called that correctly opened the filePro 
> license was not available.  It displays 0000-0000 as the serial number.
> 
> We are trying to switch to a Domain Controller and eliminate the Netware 
> Client from all the clients.
> 
> All normal filePro stuff seemed to work just fine, however, on the 
> computers that are using fpODBC, the licensing is not working if we 
> eliminate the netware client.
> 
> Is there any other way to handle this without the netware client?  We 
> really want to eliminate this software.

I don't think a Windows Domain controller is the solution or the problem.
 From my experience with fpODBC license manager, the application looks to the 
boot drive's serial number.

If you click "START", "RUN", and type "cmd" you will get a command prompt.
type "dir", and look for ...

C:\Documents and Settings\User_Name>dir
  Volume in drive C has no label.
  Volume Serial Number is ABCD-1234

That serial number is what your license should tied to (ABCD-1234).

Not having been exposed to Novell since the late 80's where the diskless clients 
actually did boot of the server, I can't imagine each of those workstations all 
have 0000-0000 as hard drive serial numbers. What you can do is change the hard 
drive serial number to match the number that you have as a license.