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        <h1><a name="kanchor103"></a><a name="kanchor104"></a>WCommute - Performs Multiple Commuter Authorization Tasks</h1>
        <p>Your network administrator will give you instructions on where to find 
 the WCommute utility. Within Windows Explorer, navigate to the <span style="font-style: italic;">WCommute.exe</span> 
 file and double-click it to run it. </p>
        <p>Using Wcommute, you can do the following:</p>
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                    <li class="Numbered_Steps" value="1">To find an authorization 
 for the commuter license you want to use, click <span style="font-weight: bold;">Search 
 Subnet</span> to see commuter licenses available on all License Managers 
 on your part of the network within the given subnet. If there is a specific 
 License Manager you want to search or want to select a License Manager outside 
 of your subnet, click <span style="font-weight: bold;">Single Server</span>. 
 <br />	If you have clicked <span style="font-weight: bold;">Single Server</span>, 
 a dialog box displays asking you to enter the name of the License Manager 
 you want to contact. Enter the License Manager computer’s host name or 
 IP address and click <span style="font-weight: bold;">OK</span>. <span style="margin-left: 0px;">On clicking </span><span style="margin-left: 0px;font-weight: bold;">Search 
 Subnet </span><span style="margin-left: 0px;">you may need to wait for 
 a minute or two while Wcommute searches the subnet for License Managers.</span></li>
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                <ol start="2" style="list-style: decimal;list-style-type: decimal;">
                    <li class="Numbered_Steps" value="2">Wcommute displays 
 the changes after you have selected the License Managers for which you 
 want to see commuter licenses.<br />	For each License Manager, you see a list of commuter licenses for which 
 you can check out an authorization. If you see a red check mark next to 
 a commuter license, that means that an authorization has already been 
 checked out to your portable computer. You may not check out an authorization 
 if it is already checked out.</li>
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                <p class="SFNT_Note"><span style="font-weight: normal;">If 
 the License Manager and WCommute utility are running on the same system, 
 then the IP address and host name cannot be used interchangeably with 
 "localhost."</span>
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                    <li class="Numbered_Steps" value="3">To check out 
 an authorization, select the license under a License Manager. The <span style="font-weight: bold;">Enter number of days until the commuter authorization 
 expires</span> text box becomes active. You can use any of the following options here: </li>
                    <li class="Bullets_2" value="4">The default value shown there is the number of days left for license to expire. Leaving the value as it is would mean that the checked out license would expire in the field at the end of the expiration date at 23:59:59 hours.</li>
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                <p class="SFNT_Note">The value would be 1 (day) even on the 2nd last day as well as the last day of the expiration. Whereas, if converted into hours, there might look like substantial difference in the actual time left for the commuter token to expire on the 2nd last day vis-a-vis the last day. </p>
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                    <li class="Bullets_2" value="1">To limit the number of check out days, specify a value (less than what is shown by default). </li>
                    <li class="Bullets_2" value="2">Else, you may select the <span style="font-weight: bold;">No Limit</span> 
 check box for unlimited check-out duration. </li>
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                    <li class="Numbered_Steps" value="4">Next click <span style="font-weight: bold;">Check Out</span>. Remember 
 the name of the License Manager from which you obtained the authorization. 
 You will need to check the authorization back into the same License Manager 
 later.</li>
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                <p>To check in an authorization, look for the license under the license 
 server from which you checked it out. Click once on it in the display 
 to select it. (There should be a red check mark next to it, indicating 
 that you have it checked out.) Click <span style="font-weight: bold;">Check 
 In</span>.</p>
                <p class="SFNT_Note">You must check the authorization back into the same License Manager from 
 which you checked it out. </p>
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                    <li class="Numbered_Steps" value="1">Run <span style="font-weight: bold;">WCommute</span> 
 and select the commuter authorization you want to use from the network 
 as you normally would.</li>
                    <li class="Numbered_Steps" value="2">Select the <span style="font-weight: bold;">Check out authorization for remote machine</span> 
 check box and click <span style="font-weight: bold;">Check Out</span>. 
 Now <span style="font-weight: bold;">WCommute</span> displays the <span style="font-weight: bold;">Locking Code for Remote Machine</span> dialog 
 box.</li>
                    <li class="Numbered_Steps" value="3">Provide the commuter 
 locking code using any of the following methods:</li>
                    <li class="Bullets_2" value="4">To type the commuter 
 locking code received from the remote user, select <span style="font-weight: bold;">Enter 
 the locking code for remote machine</span> and type it in the text box. 
 </li>
                    <li class="Bullets_2" value="5">To paste the commuter 
 locking code from the computer clipboard, click the <span style="font-weight: bold;">Paste 
 from Clipboard</span> icon.</li>
                    <li class="Bullets_2" value="6">To choose the commuter 
 locking code from a file, select Get locking code for remote machine from 
 file and type the file name in the text box or use the <span style="font-weight: bold;">Browse</span> 
 button to find it.</li>
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                    <li class="Numbered_Steps" value="4">Click <span style="font-weight: bold;">OK. 
 </span>The <span style="font-weight: bold;"><a name="kanchor105"></a>Remote Commuter Licensing</span> 
 dialog box appears. </li>
                    <li class="Numbered_Steps" value="5">Send the commuter 
 authorization to a remote user using any of the following methods:<ol start="4"><li class="Bullets_1" value="4">Type an e-mail address 
 in the <span style="font-weight: bold;">Email address</span> text box 
 and click <span style="font-weight: bold;">Send</span>. </li><li class="Bullets_1" value="5">To save the commuter 
 authorization to a file, click the <span style="font-weight: bold;">Save 
 to File</span> icon.</li></ol></li>
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                <p>The duration of a remote checked out license can be extended before its expiration. Follow the steps given below:</p>
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                    <li class="Numbered_Steps" value="1">Run <span style="font-weight: bold;">WCommute</span> 
 and select the commuter authorization whose duration needs to be extended.</li>
                    <li class="Numbered_Steps" value="2">Specify extension days in <b>Enter duration for which the existing commuter token needs to be extended</b>. This field needs to be ignored if a fresh remote authorization is being checked out. </li>
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                <p class="SFNT_Note">If values are specified for both the remote commuter extension days and commuter days (as shown in the diagram below), the former supersedes the latter.</p>
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