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Re: lmhostid Problem (network card as dongle) [message #38073 is a reply to message #38027]

Thu, 19 February 2004 13:45

pashas77
Messages: 7
Registered: April 2003

Junior Member

> The personal license is only for windows or only for linux. This can't
> be mixed.

Actually not true, the personal licsence can be mixed between two OSs.
How do I know?? well my collegue harassed RSI and then he got a
personal license to work both in windows and linux. Practically
speaking he doesn't switch too much between the two, but it's still
nice to have.

Sabir Pasha

Reimar Bauer <R.Bauer@fz-juelich.de> wrote in message news:<c0vds6$4d98$1@zam602.zam.kfa-juelich.de>...
> Robert Moss wrote:
>> I cannot answer your specific question, but I was wondering if you have
>> considered using the new Personal Use license which allows you to
>> install and use IDL on multiple machines?
>>
>> Robert Moss
>
> Dear Robert
>
> The personal license is only useful if you have yourself more as one
> machine and noone of your colleagues are using this machines too. It's
> only a personal license for the owner not for a different user on the
> same machine.
>
> The personal license is only for windows or only for linux. This can't
> be mixed.
>
> Reimar Bauer
>
>
>
>
>>
>> Reimar Bauer wrote:
>>
>>> Dear all
>>>
>>>
>>> While the good "dongle" isn't available with idl6.0 we thought to use
>>> a pcmcia network card for traveling one IDL license to different
>>> notebooks. The card is moved to the notebook which should get the
>>> license.
>>> We got different results for windows and linux.
>>>
>>>
>>> on windows:
>>> lmhostid compares every available network mac address with the license
>>> information. The notebook with the additional network card is able to
>>> use the idl license defined to this pcmcia card
>>>
>>> on linux:
>>> lmhostid queries always only the first ethernet card (eth0). The
>>> others are ignored.
>>> I hope someone has an excellent idea how to get the lmhostid querying
>>> an other network card too. Or is this a bug?
>>>
>>>
>>> best regards
>>>
>>> Reimar
>>
>>

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		lmhostid Problem (network card as dongle) By: R.Bauer on Tue, 17 February 2004 07:20
		Re: lmhostid Problem (network card as dongle) By: R.Bauer on Fri, 20 February 2004 03:09
		Re: lmhostid Problem (network card as dongle) By: pashas77 on Thu, 19 February 2004 13:45
		Re: lmhostid Problem (network card as dongle) By: R.Bauer on Wed, 18 February 2004 02:13
		Re: lmhostid Problem (network card as dongle) By: Robert Moss on Tue, 17 February 2004 16:04

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