NetWare 6 Server Licenses
Articles and Tips: qna
01 Jan 2003
Q.
I have heard that NetWare 6 servers do not require licenses. I have three NetWare 6 server licenses and four NetWare 6 servers, and I am having trouble connecting to the fourth NetWare 6 server. What is the problem and how is this supposed to work?
Big Sam the Serverman
A.
Dear Big Sam: All NetWare 6 servers require a server license. As Technical Information Document #10065536 explains:
"With NetWare 6, server licenses are basically free. As a result, every license diskette will contain a server license, therefore many customers will have a number of extra server licenses not in use.
"The same server licenses can NOT be installed multiple times in the same container and if additional server licenses are needed, they can be downloaded for free from the following URL: http://www1.novell.com/eld/LRequest.jsp?ENCRYPTION=NW6
"Because server licenses are distributed freely, the only activation key contained on upgrade license diskettes will be for the user license component. As before, activation keys will only be distributed with upgrade licenses.
"When the SERVER license on an upgrade license diskette is installed either during the actual server installation or after server installation in iManage (or in NWADMN32.EXE), no activation screen is generated.
* Originally published in Novell AppNotes
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