Comments on: Addressing Licensing Issues With Adobe CS3 Apps On SoftGrid

By: The World Simplified is a Virtual World : Recipes and Step-By-Steps

The World Simplified is a Virtual World : Recipes and Step-By-Steps — Mon, 01 Sep 2008 13:53:31 +0000

[...] Addressing Licensing Issues With Adobe CS3 Apps On SoftGrid [...]

By: Doug

Doug — Thu, 29 May 2008 10:07:26 +0000

The FlexNet service doesn’t seem to behave well when playing with others.

In the installation source (under payloads) is the “AdobeALMAnchorServiceAll” folder, this contains the FlexNet service. This can be installed locally on the machine (as it’s just an MSI)… and should be installed on your sequencer machine. This can then be excluded from the bubble and can be used by all Adobe apps. We are running Photoshop, InDesign and Illustrator, which now all use the local service.

The service manages a local security database for the licences, and a config file for the apps supported. (from what I can make out).

If we ran 2 apps, that had their FlexNet service in the bubble, that would have some sort of conflict, and come up the the standard licensing error. We are running these on a Terminal Server, which makes running one Adobe app at a time impossible.

We can now run multiple Adobe apps on the same servers with no issue.

By: Aaron Parker

Aaron Parker — Sat, 17 May 2008 05:54:34 +0000

WordPress strikes again. I’ll fix the script when I get back to London next week.

By: Anders

Anders — Fri, 16 May 2008 13:16:02 +0000

Is it just me, or has the POST LAUNCH script turned invisible?

By: Jonathan

Jonathan — Fri, 18 Apr 2008 11:01:09 +0000

I had the same problem, but was unable to kill the process (mainly due to my lack of hacking skills no doubt :)). I resorted to writing a batch file, called from the OSD file, that kills the licensing process…the syntax is…
@TASKKILL /F /IM FNPLicensingService.exe. Also, thanks for your help earlier Aaron