Artwork Daemon on Windows

Can't start artwork daemon on Windows

When trying to start the Flexlm license manager on Windows, the artwork.exe daemon remains down and you get the following error message.

#Flexible License Manager status on Tue 11/11/2003 09:20

[Detecting lmgrd processes...]
License server status: 1501@hera
    License file(s) on hera: C:\artwork\license.dat:

      hera: license server UP (MASTER) v8.1

Vendor daemon status (on hera):

   artwork: The desired vendor daemon is down. (-97,121)

We found that FLEXlm always creates a lock file called "C:\flexlm\artwork" when you start our vendor daemon, even if your license server is in a different directory. If you create a directory called C:\flexlm\artwork , the server would start up and try to create the lock file, but it couldn't because there is already a directory with that name. The solution is to rename the directory, and restart the server