Any process that spawns a bshell uses a license. If a process uses ipc_boot to launch a Baan DB driver, fs6.1 process, etc. without a bshell, no license is used.

-- Jim

I was looking at some postings and I found this and I have a question... when we were running Crystal Reports we often saw that there was a Driver process related to that with out a bshell. Does that mean, based on the above statement, that Crystal did not consume a Baan license?

No bshell = no baanlicense (as far as I know).

Crystal dosn't require baan free licences - you may connect even while you receive the message "Maximum of users reached".

Hi there,

never forget, that "licd does not notice" does not mean
it is legal.

For example licd counts concurrent licences, but most Baan customers have named licences. licd will never notice, but
some of my clients got anyway a nice letter from Baan reminding them of this fact.

The same could be true for db-drivers and so on.

But otherwise you are right. 500 crystal users can access your database, even though you might have only 5 Baan licences.

Regards

Markus

Question for Old Vens

Based on your posting can you explain why our Crystal reports fail when our licence limit is hit with message cannot logon to server ?

Frank -
Can't log onto the server or can't log onto Baan? You can do some database queries without opening a bshell.