Server / Network Installation

[John Wilkinson]

I am acting as CAD co-ordinator for a Local Authority. We are windows 2000 pro based. We have recently purchased VectorWorks Fundamental 12.5 upgrade. We have 26 licences. We wish to install to a server so that the licences are available to a wider number of staff. We have an IT support team to carry out our installations. They are currently trying to install to the server and report that there is no option for a server install. Does this require a differnt disk? Please advise how to get from the box to get the programme working on a workstation with the license numbers held on the server. I am acting as go between and do not necessarily have all the correct terminology but any help in this regard would be greatly appreciated.

[gScott]

install all licence numbers on all machines you want to use VW on. VW will allow up to 26 <or whatever the number of licences you have is> to be used simultaneously across the network. i assume that this is allowed in the licence fine print.. NNA comment?

[Guest]

Technically, you can only install VW on one computer at a time. So if you own 25 licenses, only 25 computers can have it installed. You can add all 25 licenses to each computer so long as you are not using individual dongles.

If you have a network dongle, the story changes. You can then install VW on as many computers as necessary. The dongle will only allow 25 (or whatever number of licenses bought) instances to run simultaneously.