Metrohm tiamo 2.3 Installation User Manual

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7 Adding additional licenses with Windows Vista

or newer

General
Since Windows Vista, Microsoft has introduced the UAC (User Account Con-
trol), which permits running tasks either as non-administrator or as administra-
tor (without changes of user, switching off or similar).

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc709691%28WS.10%29.aspx

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/magazine/2007.06.uac.aspx

This function can however cause difficulties with client/server installations for
tiamo.

Problem description
One would like to add additional licenses for the program; the license code for
an additional 5 licenses, for example, is added (on the server) in the program
part Configuration in the dialog window Program administration (accessi-
ble via menu item Tools

Program administration, tab Licenses).

The file license.mlic, which contains the standard license code and the addi-
tional license codes, is stored in the bin directory of the program installation
(C:\Program Files\Metrohm\tiamo\bin).

If one adds the 5 licenses and then looks at this file license.mlic, only the
standard license code will be listed (for 3 licenses).

If one highlights the file license.mlic and presses Compatibility files in the
bar, then one will arrive in the directory, C:\Users\'User'\AppData\Local
\VirtualStore\Program Files\Metrohm\tiamo\bin
('User' being the abbre-
viation (UID) for the user logged in on the operating system). The file
license.mlic with the license codes for the standard licenses and the 5 newly
added licenses is to be found here, i.e. the additional licenses are stored in the
VirtualStore of the Windows user who was logged in on the PC at the time
the additional licenses were added, only.

On the server, the program recognizes all of the licenses; the operating system
adds the file license.mlic from the directory C:\Users\'User'\AppData\Local
\VirtualStore\Program Files\tiamo\bin
to the detail list of the directory C:
\Program Files\Metrohm\tiamo\bin
.

For the Client/Server functionality of the database server, however, the file
license.mlic in the directory C:\Program Files\Metrohm\tiamo\bin is rele-
vant, and here only the basic license is listed. Therefore problems are to be
anticipated when adding additional clients (more than the 3 clients present in
the default settings).

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