| Re: license questions [message #28541 is a reply to message #28540] |
Wed, 19 December 2001 03:09   |
Jonas
Messages: 23
Registered: May 1998
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Thanks for all the answers. As I suspected, the usenet-way was much faster
to get info on the issue than from RSI... :-)
I'll try the registry hack for those laptops equipped with a LPT-port. I
still don't see a smooth solution to our two non-LPT-port machines though...
I guess I'll try to trade two of our HASP's to software node-locked licenses
for them.
What happens when a software nodelocked machine is replaced? How can the
license be transfered to another machine?
Jonas
"Rick Towler" <rtowler@u.washington.edu> skrev i meddelandet
news:9vo8iu$142g$1@nntp6.u.washington.edu...
>> Is it possible to assign a floating license to a machine that is not
always
>> attached to the network? Several of our users have notebooks and would
>> appreciate being able to use IDL at home/on travels
>
> No since there is no way to connect to the license server and check out
the
> license. They have to be connected to some network that can see your
> license server
>
>
>> We also have a few HASP licenses, and these can normally be used for "out
>> office"-purpose. Is it possible to switch between HASP/floating licenses
in
>> a smooth way? This would "free up" the HASP licenses to be distributed to
>> the ones currently out of office.
>
> Word on the street a few months back was that HASP will die with v5.6 or
> thereabouts. I haven't heard talk of an alternative to HASP but we'll
just
> have to see if users let this licensing method die or not. The only way
to
> conveniently switch between FlexLM and HASP that I have come up with is
> a Windows only method that modifies the registry key that IDL reads to
> determine what method it is licensed under.
>
> First, copy the license.dat file from your license server to the client
> machine (the HASP driver screws up IDL so it will not request the license
> file from the server. You need a local copy.) and license for FlexLM.
> Next, install the HASP driver and license for the dongle. Then use the
> attached Regedit4 registry files to switch back and forth. They will need
> to be edited if you are not using IDL 5.4.
>
>> We are planning to buy som new lightweight notebooks. Unfortunately,
these
>> have no printer port, only USB and serial, how can we solve the
>> out-of-office licensing problem on these computers?
>
> RSI was distributing USB hasp dongles to the Macatistas but I don't know
if
> they are available for the PC.
>
>
> Paul's suggestion of a node locked software license tied to a PCMCIA card
is
> probably your best bet if the dongle is dead. If you purchase a few
cardbus
> PC NICs and license them with node locked software licenses you can pass
out
> the NICs like you would the dongles. The only downside is that the user
> would have to keep copies of all of the possible license files and switch
> them according to the NIC they picked up. Oh, and then there are the
driver
> issues and the headaches of administering laptops with multiple NICs.
>
> Maybe the dongle will not die.
>
> -Rick
>
>
>
> Here are the regedit 4 files. Copy them to a file, name them accordingly,
> and just double click on them to switch between licensing methods.
>
>
> cut this text out and save as flexlm.reg making sure you correct any
> wrapping of text.
>
> ------Cut below this line------
> REGEDIT4
>
> [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Research Systems, Inc.\IDL\0\IDL DLL\5.4
> License Info]
> "LicenseMethod"=dword:00000001
> ------Cut above this line------
>
>
> cut this text out and save as hardware.reg making sure you correct any
> wrapping of text.
>
> ------Cut below this line------
> REGEDIT4
>
> [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Research Systems, Inc.\IDL\0\IDL DLL\5.4
> License Info]
> "LicenseMethod"=dword:00000000
> ------Cut above this line------
>
>
>
>
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