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Re: HASP/ flexLM licensing conflict - Follow up [message #27989 is a reply to message #27888]

Wed, 14 November 2001 16:02

Rick Towler
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Registered: August 1998

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This is a follow up to my original HASP/flexLM licensing issue. To recap,
licensing client machines by setting the LM_LICENSE_FILE variable to
port@machine (eq 1700@goldfish.com) failed when a HASP driver was installed.
The HASP driver was installed for another product, not for IDL which was
licensed via flexLM.

Whatever the reason, you can not configure a client machine to access the
license file from your flexLM license server as described on page 67 of the
License Management Guide (LMG) if the client machine has a HASP driver
installed. Setting the environment variable LM_LICENSE_FILE to port@server
will not work.

The solution is to license your client machine as described in the section
titled "Installing License File Copies on Client Machines" on page 68 of the
LMG. This unfortunately requires your admin to manage multiple copies of
your IDL license file, just like in the old days....

-Rick

"Rick Towler" <rtowler@u.washington.edu> wrote in message
news:9shd3p$24h2$1@nntp6.u.washington.edu...
> Platform: Windows 2000
> IDL Ver: 5.4 soon to be 5.5
>
> We license IDL by setting the LM_LICENSE_FILE environment variable to the
> port@machine.name where we have our IDL license server (running the FlexLM
> daemon). This is a quick and easy and allows me to only manage license
> files on one machine.
>
> We just purchased a software product that is licensed via HASP + dongle
> (just like IDL has been up to 5.5). Upon installing the HASP driver, IDL
> refuses to connect to the network license manager and only looks for a
local
> license file. I ran into this issue before when this same machine was
> upgraded to 5.4 and simultaneously switched from HASP licensing to use a
> network license. The solution (after lots of head scratching) was to
remove
> the HASP driver.
>
> Does anybody know of a way to get the HASP driver + IDL + network license
to
> coexist in harmony?
>
> I am assuming that the last resort would be to copy the network license
file
> to the local machine and configure IDL to use a network license in the pre
> 5.4 manner but that introduces the headache of having to manage license
> files on every machine that has this new software package installed.
> Bugger.
>
> Thanks for any sage advice.
>
> -Rick
>
>

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		HASP/ flexLM licensing conflict By: Rick Towler on Fri, 09 November 2001 12:07
		Re: HASP/ flexLM licensing conflict By: Pavel A. Romashkin on Tue, 13 November 2001 08:37
		Re: HASP/ flexLM licensing conflict - Follow up By: Rick Towler on Wed, 14 November 2001 16:02
		Re: HASP/ flexLM licensing conflict - Follow up By: Mark Hadfield on Thu, 15 November 2001 12:37

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