I just bought a multi-seat license of a statistics software package that allows for a "floating" type network install, with the weird caveat that unlike most such installs where the number of clients that can run the software is tracked by a server provided along with the software, they require the user to run monitoring software of some sort to make sure that there aren't more than the appropriate number of clients running it simultaneously.
Given that there are only a couple of Mac-based options that I could find that would do that sort of license tracking for you, and they cost upwards of a couple thousand dollars--which is several times more than the software I'd be using it to track in the first place, rather ridiculous--it seems like a much easier way to restrict the number of simultaneous users would be to just put the software on its own share, and limit the number of simultaneous users connected to that share. You certainly can't have too many people accessing it at once then, and I honestly don't think I'm even going to get close to the max number of seats I have under any normal circumstances, so making people disconnect after quitting isn't going to be an issue.
Except that 10.9 doesn't offer any method to limit the concurrent connections to an AFP share. I found a terminal command to limit the connections to the AFP server as a whole, but that would wreck the other regular fileshares on the same server--I just want to limit the one single share.
Does anybody know how to do that?
Alternately, is there some method of license tracking (similar to Sassafras KeyServer) that will do simple "how many people are running this" tracking that doesn't cost a fortune?
Given that there are only a couple of Mac-based options that I could find that would do that sort of license tracking for you, and they cost upwards of a couple thousand dollars--which is several times more than the software I'd be using it to track in the first place, rather ridiculous--it seems like a much easier way to restrict the number of simultaneous users would be to just put the software on its own share, and limit the number of simultaneous users connected to that share. You certainly can't have too many people accessing it at once then, and I honestly don't think I'm even going to get close to the max number of seats I have under any normal circumstances, so making people disconnect after quitting isn't going to be an issue.
Except that 10.9 doesn't offer any method to limit the concurrent connections to an AFP share. I found a terminal command to limit the connections to the AFP server as a whole, but that would wreck the other regular fileshares on the same server--I just want to limit the one single share.
Does anybody know how to do that?
Alternately, is there some method of license tracking (similar to Sassafras KeyServer) that will do simple "how many people are running this" tracking that doesn't cost a fortune?