How many "free" logins when out of licenses ?

[lemontreeoutsourcing]

Hi all,

Fairly simple question I guess... I have a NetWare 6.5 environment with 35 user licenses installed and also in use.
Actually we have more active users than installed licenses.

Daily the System Console (of course) displays error messages like

16-03-2006 13:15:50 : SERVER-5.70-3651 [nmID=50020]
POLICY MANAGER - (5.00-015): Unable to obtain a connection license unit.
Operation will continue. Contact your network administrator to verify that licensing services are functioning properly and that license units are available. Error # C0001006 (username.ou.tree)

The users reported in the error messages are usually able to log in normally. Lately some users report they are able to log in, but drive mappings are not being made and the login script displays error messages including "The workstation date and time could not be set."
When I free up some licensed connections in iManager (like admin and nvc50 which is for Norman virus control) the user can log in successfully again.

Now, can anybody tell me how many unlicensed -but fully functional- connections there are allowed to be made before users cannot log in anymore and experience the problems described above (with the login script errors and drive mappings not being made) ?
My guess is 5, but I need to be sure. I can't find anything on this on support.novell.com or here on the forums.

Thanks for your reply.

Rgds

Martijn

 

[bytehd]

used to be 2 grace logins

thats why you could run eval as a server for a long time

George Walkey
Senior Geek in charge

http://www.insyncva.com

 

[marvhuffaker]

Fairly simple question I guess... I have a NetWare 6.5 environment with 35 user licenses installed and also in use.
Actually we have more active users than installed licenses."

=== You are answering your own question.. Do you think it's just going to let you have free connections?

The behavior you are describing is exactly what happens when no more licenses are available. The answer is to buy more licenses.

You need to understand that when a user logs in, they consume a license and it will stay allocated to that user for 90 days. 90 days from the last login. It's not just how many people are connected to the server -- that's old school Netware 5.x.

So if you have 50 users, you need 50 licenses, even if only 35 of them are logged in at any given time.

Marvin Huffaker, MCNE

http://www.redjuju.com

 

[lemontreeoutsourcing]

I know I need to buy more licenses, that's clear. I also know how NetWare 6.5 handles and uses these licenses, with the 90-day allocation and all.
My question is how many "grace logins" (I am sure they exist) there are allowed in NetWare 6.5.

 

[Provogeek]

bytehd has already provided you with an answer

=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+
Brent Schmidt Certified nut case
Senior Network Engineer
Keep IT Simple

http://www.kiscc.com

 

[bytehd]

Yeah, I think that was so NDS could login to the tree or
at least one admin could gain access.
nothings free

except beer

George Walkey
Senior Geek in charge

http://www.insyncva.com