[UW-GIS-L] Re: SDE.GIS.WASHINGTON.EDU offline

[Nathan A. Cosgray]

Luke Rogers very helpfully suggested that I remove the ESRI_LICENSE_FILE 
environment variable from my systems -- worked like a charm.

So, if anyone else has weird problems setting the license server name, 
just make sure that environment variable is not present...

thanks!
-n.

Nathan A. Cosgray wrote:

> Thanks for sending out the announcement about this issue.
> 
> Meanwhile, what should my users do if they want to use the Arc software? 
> I've removed sde.gis from the ESRI_LICENSE_FILE environment variable, 
> leaving the other three license servers, but this does not seem to work; 
> we still get license errors.
> 
> I've also tried using Desktop Administrator to remove sde.gis but when I 
> replace its entry with another of the license servers, I get an "invalid 
> server" error message.
> 
> I'm new to the ESRI software management way, so if there are any tricks 
> or tips that someone could offer, I'd really appreciate it.
> 
> thanks!
> -n.
> 

-- 
Nathan A. Cosgray
Windows System Administrator
CSDE Computer Core
ncosgray at u.washington.edu
206-543-2668