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Altera_Forum
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11 years ago

Setting up Floating License on Remote Server

Hi All, I have a floating license that my company got and I'm trying to have it be accessible to myself and others in my office. The host server where we have to store the license file is in T...
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11 years ago

Your license.dat file on your local PC is very simple, and just has "SERVER" and "USE_SERVER" lines. Tell Quartus on your PC to use that file.

For the hostname field of the "SERVER" line, you can either use a host name or an IP address.

The same license.dat can be installed on all of the client computers that want to use the shared floating license from the host.