License Sharing

For Laserfiche Team or United, the Laserfiche Server license determines the number of simultaneous full and retrieval licensed connections that can be established to the Laserfiche Server. A licensed connection is made whenever a client application communicates with the Laserfiche Server. For example, logging in to a repository using the Laserfiche Windows client creates a connection to the Server. Opening the Administration Console would create another connection. Logging in via the web client would create a third connection, and so on.

However, the Laserfiche Server supports the ability to use a single license for multiple connections by the same user on the same workstation. This means that multiple applications on the same workstation can simultaneously connect to a repository and share the same license. For example, a user could open the Laserfiche Windows client, Administration Console and Workflow Designer on the same computer, but only use one license.

In order for two applications to share a license to the Laserfiche Server, they must connect using the same authentication information and be connecting on the same computer. In other words, if a user name and password was used to authenticate to a repository, a shared connection can only be established if the same user logs in to the repository from the same computer. This principle holds true when logging in to a repository using Windows authentication. (In addition, when using Windows authentication, you can share a connection when accessing different repositories from the same computer; this is not true for Laserfiche trustees.) Under these circumstances, a shared connection can only be established if you use Windows authentication from the second application. Using different user accounts to log in to Laserfiche will cause an additional license to be used.

Note: Laserfiche version 6 client applications will always use a licensed connection on the Laserfiche Server. These applications cannot share a connection with Laserfiche version 7, 8 or 9 client applications.

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