Some progress this morning UCxxx is recognizing the AXBB-E it gives the serial # as CAOED1 and IP address as 10.10.10.11

However not yet worked out how to get the license key installed. Which exactly is the UCCNC root folder ?
I've tried copying the license text to UCCNC exe.config and UCCNC but not getting any joy.

When I power up the AXBB-E and open UCCNC it says "valid license key not found ! application will run in demo mode"

Once I sort out this hurdle and know the license is recognized and the computer and AXBB-E are linked I'll go back to trying to get everything working on the laptop.
Thanks for the advice Evans