Weird hiccup with FP License Manager Server

[Boaz Bezborodko]

I just had a weird problem.  One of the users called me up to say that
when they started a menu the screen just went blank.  Sure enough the
same thing happened on my computer.  I couldn't run P without the screen
going blank and staying there.

At first I couldn't figure out what was going on.  Everything looked
good on the server and Samba was serving up all the files I was pulling
up.  Then I found that I could run the 4.8 version of P and I realized
that it might be a problem with the license manager server.  I stopped
and then restarted it and sure enough it worked.

Shouldn't there be some time-out error that tells you that there is a
problem with the server or that it can't get a license?

Could it be related to the fact that I'm running Windows machines with
the license manager running as a Linux service on the Samba box?

Just thought I'd bring this to people's attention in case you run into
it and needed to know what the cause was.

Boaz