Bentley Redline is a viewer for DGN and DWG files that requires that users have write access to the application folder for the licensing component to work. Genius, pure genius:
Here’s a quote from a discussion list I found on the Bentley web site:
The sf.dat file is used by the licensing subsystem and needs to be in a folder that is write-enabled. Bentley Redline (or any other Bentley desktop product) will not run if that is not the case.
Fortunately it appears that you can run something called SELECTserver that looks like it can centralise licensing. Unfortunately the client I am implementing this in a Terminal Server environment for, does not have access to that software. Even if you have the SELECTserver for centralised licensing, users still require write access to the SF.DAT file!
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