Article - CS23456

Error "Terminal Server Remote Client Not Allowed" or "(-103) Cannot checkout an uncounted license within a windows terminal services guest session"

Modified: 12-Mar-2025   


Applies To

  • Creo Parametric 1.0 to 11.0
  • Pro/ENGINEER and Creo Elements/Pro Wildfire to Wildfire 5.0
  • Mathcad 14.0 to 15.0
  • Mathcad Prime 1.0 to 10.0
  • PTC Arbortext Editor 6.0 to 8.2
  • PTC Arbortext Publishing Engine 6.0 to 8.2
  • Creo Illustrate 1.0 to 10.0
  • Arbortext IsoDraw CADprocess 6.1 to 7.4
  • Windchill PDMLink 12.0 to 13.0
  • PTC Flex-enabled applications

Description

  • When launching get FlexNet Error:
(-103) Cannot checkout an uncounted license within a windows terminal services guest session
The License you have requested contains an error. Flexnet licensing error: 103,577

 

  • Terminal Server Remote Client Not Allowed. when launching Mathcad14.0 - 15.0.
  • Error Cannot Checkout an Uncounted License Within a Windows Terminal Services Guest Session when launching Creo Illustrate in Citrix Virtual Desktops
  • Is it possible to use remote desktop sharing (RDP) to access an application having node-locked license
  • Getting the error message no such feature exist when starting Creo Illustrate 3.1 via remote desktop connection
  • Print Preview shows the following error message 
Unable to obtain a license for optional component Servigistics Arbortext Print Composer
  • Error (-103) while using a locked license on a virtual machine
  • Error (-103), Cannot checkout an uncounted license within a windows terminal services guest session occurs while launching Flexnet based applications in Azure Based VDIs (AVDs).
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