

Due to this the WIBU-KEY Server is most commonly installed on a computer where other services are also running, so most commonly this is a Server Computer.

This computer might be whichever computer in the LAN (even one where an ARCHICAD will be running), the only thing that you should consider is that this computer should always be running and should be available on the LAN while anyone is working on an ARCHICAD. Select a computer in your LAN on which you will install the WIBU-KEY Server application. Setting up a basic WIBU-KEY Server configuration The reached WIBU-KEY Server then gets the license from a Network Wibu-Key plugged in there and it allocates to the ARCHICAD that was initially asking for it by sending the needed information back to to the ARCHICAD application through the WIBU-KEY Client. The WIBU-KEY Client then gets a license for running ARCHICAD either from the locally plugged Single Wibu-Key or it searches the LAN for a WIBU-KEY Server. When ARCHICAD is started on a computer then this ARCHICAD will communicate with the Wibu-Key Client on this computer. On all computers where an ARCHICAD runs a Wibu-Key Client is also set up (If the ARCHICAD package has been properly installed and WIBU option has been chosen at installation). The WIBU-KEY Server Application is an application that offers services to WIBU-KEY Clients which run in the same LAN (Local Area Network).

That is, a WibuKey programmed for ARCHICAD 16 can run previous versions back to ARCHICAD 7.0 (or, with proper tools installed, back to 6.0). Please note that ARCHICAD 19 does not support Wibu key protection, ARCHICAD 18 was the last version which can be run with Wibu keys.
