Over the past few days I have been experiencing License Key Conflicts with fully licensed machines. I am running FMServer 8.### with a mix of about 8 clients. Randomly, FM Pro on a client machine will quit. Upon relaunch the user will get a License conflict. now this has happened before and we had to restart the machine to fix it. That no lnoger works. I have to close all of the DB's and then reopen them. trying to disconnect the just crashed client from FMServer does nothing. I cannot even send a message. Anyone else having similar problems or does anyone have a solution?

Thanks

I'm using FM 9 and Server 9 and the same thing happens to me. If I wait 2 - 3 minutes it starts up again. I just thought it may take the server a few minutes to clear itself out and then accept the request from the client. Anyway, I don't need to reboot. That would have to be very annoying!

Do you have a volume license or a group of individual licenses, e.g. FileMaker Pro in the box?

You may have a corrupted client FMP installation.

Steven

I discovered mine was due to a bad External Data Source.

This is a guess but could it have anything to do with the server having two network cards and the user logs into different databases on different IPs/NICs?

I have learned to live with this problem with my Filemaker Advanced (Developer) 8/9.

Filemaker Server has license checking that sees each fm software app diferently because it exists on different NICs. Even though the server app is the same.

I guess I could bridge the two NIC's on the server, but I'd rather keep FM traffic on one NIC and all other traffic on the other NIC.

Any ideas?