Vector works in a secure inviroment

[falcon]

hello there

we have just brought vector works and have a dongle etc.. ive installed vector works on the machines and they can pick up licences from the dongle on a server.

However when i log on as a student with ordenary user privliges they are unable to obtain a licence from the dongle. they request a serial number put in and when you go to put it in it says the licence server could not be contacted.

if i make the student user an administrator or power user it works, however this is VERY undesirable as students like to tamper with things. How do i make it so a user with plain old privliges can run vector works ?

our enviroment:

Windows 2000 server Active Directory domain

windows xp sp 2 clients

dongle is on a windows 2000 server

so just to sum that up. we need users who are not computer administrators/power users to be able to run vector works and get a licence.

Thanks

[Flip]

Hi,

I ran into this issue myself with the locally installed dongles.

In my case i set permissions on te registry key:

"HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Nemetschek\VectorWorks 11\Registration"

To "full control" for users

This is the key where the serial numbers are stored. In your case this registry key might be located at the server.

[falcon]

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Originally posted by Flip:

Hi,

I ran into this issue myself with the locally installed dongles.

In my case i set permissions on te registry key:

"HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Nemetschek\VectorWorks 11\Registration"

To "full control" for users

This is the key where the serial numbers are stored. In your case this registry key might be located at the server.

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Thanks HEAPS i tried this and it works like a charm, i changed the permissions for that regestry entry on the clients to "authenticated users" to have full control. loged off loged in as the user and it loaded up fine.

I didnt see any regkeys in the server so looks like its a client specific thing, I hope that the vector works programers fix this in the next release as i think it is quite a big issue. would say admins like me a whooole lota time, i now have to go round to lots of computers and add those permissions.

Thanks for your help Flip

I hope this thread can help some one else in the future.