Workstation file errors due to Server CAL limits

25 Jul 2006 2:47 PM

Michael ValeCruz

Is there way know that a workstation is being denied access to file
resources on the server due to CAL limitation being hit? I don't believe
even the event log records this fact. What happens if the Licensing Service
is not running are there still built in limit?

Best regards,
Michael ValeCruz

25 Jul 2006 3:44 PM

Lanwench [MVP - Exchange]

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Michael ValeCruz <mvalecr***@mcyber.com> typed:

> Is there way know that a workstation is being denied access to file
> resources on the server due to CAL limitation being hit? I don't
> believe even the event log records this fact. What happens if the
> Licensing Service is not running are there still built in limit?
>
> Best regards,
> Michael ValeCruz

I stop and disable the licensing service on all my servers, and most people
I know do the same thing. Is your service stopped? What's happening that
makes you ask? More info might help you get an answer....

25 Jul 2006 6:13 PM

Michael ValeCruz

I represent a software company that our product run in a client/server
environment. Our product opens and close files to read and write data.
Randomly I have seem an error message that occurs in our ability to access
the data. Our product errors out and user restart the program and program
attempt to access the data again and is successful.

What happens is that our custom calls us up and complains about the error
and then it my job to go in and determined what happened. Most of the time I
believe it the server generating the error due to License Limitation. Rarely
I have found it to be hardware issue except once when I determined they were
trying to access files wireless and packets were getting dropped which
truely caused data access errors.

I am no MCSE but I have been dealing with Microsoft and Novell servers for
the past 16 years.

Question when Licensing is not being run on a standard file server but is
running on the domain controller is that controlling the licensing being
done on the file server?

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> Michael ValeCruz <mvalecr***@mcyber.com> typed:
>> Is there way know that a workstation is being denied access to file
>> resources on the server due to CAL limitation being hit? I don't
>> believe even the event log records this fact. What happens if the
>> Licensing Service is not running are there still built in limit?
>>
>> Best regards,
>> Michael ValeCruz
>
> I stop and disable the licensing service on all my servers, and most
> people I know do the same thing. Is your service stopped? What's happening
> that makes you ask? More info might help you get an answer....
>

26 Jul 2006 3:07 PM

Lanwench [MVP - Exchange]

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Michael ValeCruz <mvalecr***@mcyber.com> typed:
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> I represent a software company that our product run in a client/server
> environment. Our product opens and close files to read and write data.
> Randomly I have seem an error message that occurs in our ability to
> access the data. Our product errors out and user restart the program
> and program attempt to access the data again and is successful.
>
> What happens is that our custom calls us up and complains about the
> error and then it my job to go in and determined what happened. Most
> of the time I believe it the server generating the error due to
> License Limitation. Rarely I have found it to be hardware issue
> except once when I determined they were trying to access files
> wireless and packets were getting dropped which truely caused data
> access errors.
> I am no MCSE but I have been dealing with Microsoft and Novell
> servers for the past 16 years.
>
> Question when Licensing is not being run on a standard file server
> but is running on the domain controller is that controlling the
> licensing being done on the file server?

No idea, as I don't know anyone who runs the license logging service. It's
buggy, unreliable, and not mandatory. It'd be good to find out whether the
same errors occur when the service is disabled, if you have that option.
Sorry I can't offer any more specific help.

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>> In news:%23lzyVl$rGHA.652@TK2MSFTNGP04.phx.gbl,
>> Michael ValeCruz <mvalecr***@mcyber.com> typed:
>>> Is there way know that a workstation is being denied access to file
>>> resources on the server due to CAL limitation being hit? I don't
>>> believe even the event log records this fact. What happens if the
>>> Licensing Service is not running are there still built in limit?
>>>
>>> Best regards,
>>> Michael ValeCruz
>>
>> I stop and disable the licensing service on all my servers, and most
>> people I know do the same thing. Is your service stopped? What's
>> happening that makes you ask? More info might help you get an
>> answer....

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