I have Max 9 running on a windows 2003 SB server with clients running a mix of Win Xp and Vista. I have a five-user licence.

Am I right in thinking that I can add as many users as I like, as long as no more than five of them are logged-in at any one time? This is what I would expect to be the case, but I have no direct experience and would appreciate info from anyone who knows a bit more about this before trying it.

TIA

Michael,

The licensing in Maximizer is enforced at a user and connection level.

With a 5 user license you can have 5 named user accouts active in Maximizer as well as a Maximum of 5 connections running at the same time.

The MASTER, COMPANY, WEBUSER & EMAILUSER accounts do not count towards the used licenses.

Thanks for the prompt rely. So, if I wanted to have six users, one of them would need to be disabled - and presumably this would need to be done on the server rather than an individual client machine?

That would indeed work, however I feel we should point out that the terms of the license from Maximizer state that you must have one license for each Workstation the software is installed or each named user, which ever is the greater number.

So technically if you are intending to use the software with six users you should purchase six licenses.

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That would indeed work, however I feel we should point out that the terms of the license from Maximizer state that you must have one license for each Workstation the software is installed or each named user, which ever is the greater number.

So technically if you are intending to use the software with six users you should purchase six licenses.

Thanks. That (above) is not quite my situation - I have four users who are 'normal' - the fifth user is actually two people who job-share, so it would be useful if they could have their individual details on their profiles. There wouldn't at any time be more than five users logged into the system at one time. Would this breach the licence?

Michael, I wanted to let you know that older versions of Maximizer (we had Max 6 before upgrading to 9) did actually let you do what you want (create as many users as you want in a given database, but it would only let into that given database at once as many users at a time as you have licenses).

But even so, I think you weren't supposed to do that anyway (i.e. you're supposed to just have it on as many workstations as you have licenses).