Customer has installed Server 5.1 on a network server and is attempting to run the application from a workstation that is setup to use the network Server 5.1 install.

They have created a batch file that sets environment variables and then starts application.
When they run it it they get a Semaphore error displayed and a message that most likely ASLMFNET is set incorrectly.

The batch file looks like:

SET ASLMFNET=\\\\compname\\mfaslmf
SET COBDIR=\\\\compname\\serverbin
SET PATH=\\\\compname\\serverbin;%PATH%

where \\\\compname\\mfaslmf is a share pointing to C:\\mfaslmf folder on server and \\\\compname\\serverbin is a share pointing to C:\\Program Files\\Micro Focus\\Server 5.1\\bin folder on server.

It appears to be correct, what could the problem be?

When opening up a command prompt on the workstation and setting the environment variables manually, the application ran successfully which pointed to something being wrong with the batch file itself.

Upon careful examination of the batch file it was found that there was an extra space following the SET ASLMFNET variable which was causing the licensing to fail.

Removing the extra space solved the problem.