My company has several different divisions over NA and Europe. If I lose access to the network license server through our company intranet, is there a way I can get a licence by logging into our server remotely or can I access the licence through Solidworks?
Thoughts would be appreciated.
What if your user in China forgot to check a license out, or needed to renew the license? How could they, if they had an internet connection, access the license server?
well then he might be SOL!
or have to travel to a place he\she could connect to the internet VPN into the company server and then borrow the license.
Thanks, I will explore the VPN thing further
Can you get a VPN connection? That is the only way the user will be able to check out a license. The other option would be to modify the installation...change the serial number of the currently installed version of SolidWorks to a HUL (home use license) serial number. If you don't have an HUL serial number your VAR can get you one.
Thanks for the input
Brian Ross wrote:
Can you get a VPN connection? That is the only way the user will be able to check out a license. The other option would be to modify the installation...change the serial number of the currently installed version of SolidWorks to a HUL (home use license) serial number. If you don't have an HUL serial number your VAR can get you one.
but that requires you to go into the Windows registry and that could cause issue if you do something wrong.
also you would need admin rights to do this
if IT has not locked it out any user can check out a license for I believe for 30 day and you do not need the network connection to start it.
We had guys travel to China and they would do this because in some parts there wasn't any internet.
Borrowing and Returning SolidNetWork Licenses
You can borrow a SolidNetWork license to use the software from a remote location. Since the license is removed from the pool of available licenses, a borrowed license must be returned for it to become available again.
The license is lent for a specified period of time, up to 30 days (or as defined by the system administrator), and the license is removed from the pool of available licenses.
System administrators can customize borrowing to:- Define users or groups that are allowed to borrow licenses
- Set the number of licenses that cannot be borrowed
For details, see SolidNetWork_License_Manager_install_dir\Docs\flexuser\licensingenduserguide.pdf.Contents
You can borrow a SolidNetWork license to use the software from a remote location.
Since a borrowed SolidNetWork license is removed from the pool of available licenses, that borrowed license must be returned for it to become available again.