Setting up an environment variable

The following instructions are for Windows NT users.  If you are using Windows 2000 please see Setting up an environment variable on Windows 2000.

If you have not selected a license manager or wish to point to a different license manager on the network, you may do so via an environment variable. When you start your ESRI applications, they will use this environment variable path to find a license manager.  

  1. Go to your Control Panel and click on System. Choose the Environment tab.

  2. Create a new variable and set the Variable type = ESRI_LICENSE_FILE.

  3. Set the Value = @<host> for your new license manager. (eg. '@mycomputer')

  4. Click Apply and the new variable will be listed under User Variables.