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I just installed ideas nx 10 and then ideas 10m1 and ideas 10ms (ideas 10m2 is supposed t in ideas 10m3) as upgrades. I get the following message:

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internal security error : -97 you can not connect to the IDEAS flexlm lock server. please review your license file and res configuration. Can anybody please help? thank you Find A Job or Post a Job Opening Click Here. feadude (Mechanical)

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I forgot to specify OS platform details: Windows XP pro version 2002 service pack 1 LeonEng (Mechanical) I encountered this before. I restart the FlexLM in the licence server and it solved. Good luck feadude (Mechanical)

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LeonEng: Mine is a take home license at home in a PC. How do I restart the flexlm server? Do I need to do anything at work? The one at work is a standalone. SDRC does not support the take home installation but they allow one free take home licens what I have. The one at work is on windows 2000 but the one at home is on a windows xp. The problem one at home. Thank You

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feadude, Can you check whether you have the FlexLm Manager installed as well on your home PC? I FlexLm Manager installed although my workstation is not the license server. You can check 'FlexLm Manager' icon in the control panel. Open the 'FlexLm Manager' and click 'stop' then 'control' tab. I never deal with home license before & not sure whether it works or not. Hop feadude (Mechanical)

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"...Your site was well structured and I found what I was looking for in LeonEng: about 2 minutes. I am looking forward to participating with you in I tried that it did not work.Under diagnostic tab-connection, it can successfully connect to t the future..." under licenses tab -show license file- the command prompt (the black dos window) it opens More...

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fraction of a second and then it closes. I can not read what it says because it goes away so yours do the same thing? thank you 3 feadude (Mechanical)

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A follow up question. Does IDEAS 10 require partitioning of hard drive or only one drive ie C: will work for windo thank you LeonEng (Mechanical) feadude, I can read the license file correctly at the license server. The following items may help to check for the problems: 1. are you selected 'full installation' during setup. 2. in the Flexlm Manager- setup tab, is the lmgd.exe, license file, log file path correctly dire related file in <installation drive:/SDRC/sec> folder 3. Edit the license file (sdrc_MsX.lic)in the <installation drive:/SDRC/sec> folder with notep the hostname in the 1st line is your actual PC name: SERVER <your PC name> ... ... 4. open the 'lmtools' in the same folder, in service/license file tab, select 'configure using se should automatically set to flexlm license manager. in start/stop/reread tab, reread license the server. Perform checksum in the utilities tab, you should find your PC name appear as s 5. Edit the following line in the setup_varbs file(in the SDRC/bin folder) SDRC_MS9_LICENSE_FILE=7609@<your PC name> make sure your PC name is correct.

The above prosedure is for my Ideas9 setup, but i think should not be big difference in idea to setup ideas in a separate partition to prevent potential interference with other applicatio sure whether it's really heal. Hope these will work. 8 feadude (Mechanical)

LeonEng: In #5 when I try to edit it , it comes up in the prompt window and keeps scrolling and then does not allow me to edit it. thank you LeonEng (Mechanical) feadude, Do not open the setup_varbs file. just select the file & right-mouse click. select 'edit' from t & the the content will be display in notepad. Edit the line & save the file & it's done. feadude (Mechanical)

My hard drive file system is FAT32. Does anyboy know if IDEAS10 requires NTFS. Thank You feadude (Mechanical) My processor is AMD K6 . Is this supported by IDEAS10. Thank You hinterneder (Mechanical)

Anything non-IA is always a gamble with CAD systems, but there's no real reason it shouldn (though overclocking or other such hacks for any CPU could expose issues that wouldn't oth manifest .

On the Fat32, if it allows an install to happen, it's typically not a problem, though Fat32 is in stable/robust than NTFS for a variety of reasons. Your issue is with the licensing system, not anything else. Have you discussed these issues with your admin from work?

BTW, this kind of issue can also be related to Firewall-type software you may have running the various I-DEAS processes are granted FULL access to the internet, or it's likely NOT to w -e feadude (Mechanical)

hinterneder Thank you for your help. I converted my hard drive file system from FAT32 to NTFS, remov then reinstalled it but still it does not work. In I-DEAS OPEN GL this is what I get: 'and' is not recognized as an internal or external command, operable program or batch file. 'C:\Documents' is not recognized as an internal or external command, operable program or Somewhere the spaces between "Documents" and "and" and "and" and "Settings" in C:\Do Settings is not recognized by Enviroment Variables in the System . If I know where that En Variable is I can include it in quotation marks and it will work but I do not know where it is. Thank You hinterneder (Mechanical) feadude,

I think you need to be aware that I-DEAS, at least as of IMS9, doesn't really like spaces conventions (though underscores (_) instead will work fine).

Now, that may have changed with 10 (aka NX), but I would suggest you try uninstall, th to some root directories (ie, c:\SDRC and c:\Team which were the defaults in IMS9, or simi

FYI, this program came from Unix originally, where spaces are considered forbidden, so works sometimes, you're likely to get bitten (and this applies generally when using any prog on non-Windows OS's).

Worst case, we can look through the various config files, but that likely won't help if you locations require the spaces in your filenames/locations/etc.

BR, -ed feadude (Mechanical) hinterneder: This is where I have I-DEAS10 installed by default: C:\EDS\I-DEAS10\ Thanks for your help hinterneder (Mechanical)

I just realized (re-reading the RodYoung1 thread you were posting on), delete the ideas_pa 'My Documents' as this is most likely a problem.

Then double check to see that any of the other config files (ie, text that's readable by Note C:\Team\Master and in ...\Config sub-directory are clean of any references to any directorie in the name. BTW, and *param* files in C:\Team\Master can simply be deleted to reset us defaults' (ie, the ones listed in the config sub-directory). Worst case you may end-up where Rod is now

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I finally got rid of "and" and "C:\documents" in the prompt window by changing my home d C:\documents and settings to C:\feadude . Now if I can only get rid of Resource Locking pr looking for a tab called "resource locking and file security" in "advanced team properties" w one knows where the tab or the window is? I am getting this info from page 54 of I-DEAS R Installation Guide for MS Windows. Yes I know I am trying to run I-DEAS10 but I do not ha for Release 10. In my LMTOOLS under server status this is what I get: "eds_id10: The desired vendor daemon is down 1) Check the lmgrd log file, or 2) Try lmreread Feature: FLEXLM_RL Vendor:Host: J7L1Q9 License path: 7610@J7L1Q9 FLEXlm error: -97,121 Feature usage info: Users of FLEXLM_RL: Cannot get users of FLEXLM_RL: No such feature exists Feature: FLEXLM_RL License path: 7610@J7L1Q9 FLEXlm error: -5,222 thank you all feadude (Mechanical) Hinterneder: thank you for ur help.

Here is a copy of my license file: SERVER J7L1Q9 00B0D0E965E5 7610 DAEMON eds_id10 C:\EDS\I-DEAS10\sec\ options=C:\EDS\I-DEAS10\sec\eds_id10.opt INCREMENT FLEXLM_RL eds_id10 10 permanent 2147483647 8C1ADF94E5AB PACKAGE CoreMasterModeler eds_id10 10 8F1A3ADD1A48 \ COMPONENTS="MasterModeler_C MaterialDataSystem_C \ 3D_IGES_Translator_C RPT_Translator_C VDA_Translator_C \ SET_Translator_C IDEAS_Plotting_C" FEATURE CoreMasterModeler eds_id10 10 14-feb-0 1 6F670B2D8981 FEATURE SurfacingSet eds_id10 10 14-feb-0 1 CC265FA431A0 PACKAGE SimulationModelingSet eds_id10 10 E77006BA8F39 \ COMPONENTS="FEM ExtendedFEMandBeam_S" FEATURE SimulationModelingSet eds_id10 10 14-feb-0 1 8888CECFD72D PACKAGE SimulationSolutionSet eds_id10 10 9CCD3075BB03 \ COMPONENTS="ModelSolutionLinear Optimization QManServer \ QManClient_S" FEATURE SimulationSolutionSet eds_id10 10 14-feb-0 1 D303553AAB6B FEATURE ModelSolutionNonlinear eds_id10 10 14-feb-0 1 724842D1E6C7 FEATURE ResponseAnalysis eds_id10 10 14-feb-0 1 7AC3D8A3706C FEATURE MasterNotation eds_id10 10 14-feb-0 1 F062609E5159 FEATURE TakeHomeLicenseUtility eds_id10 10 14-feb-0 1 78395B853D5C FEATURE VRMLAnnotation eds_id10 10 14-feb-0 1 245B0BB1740A # You can edit the hostname on any SERVER line (1st arg), # the port address on any SERVER line (3rd arg), the path # to the daemon on the DAEMON line (2nd arg), or any # right-half of a string (b) of the form a=b where (a) is all # lowercase. (For example, xxx in vendor_info="xxx" can be # changed). Any other changes will invalidate this license. help is appreciated hinterneder (Mechanical) feadude, did you try rebooting? your license file looks fine. do you have the XP firewall enabled? -e feadude (Mechanical) hinterneder I rebooted. My fire wall is disabled. thank you hinterneder (Mechanical)

Well, the message you're getting above seems to be telling us that for some reason, it's no licenses for the FLEXLM_RL (which is computer for the Flex License Manager Resource Lock the third line in your license file above.

You should take a look in the security logs (under your install dir [ie, in c:\EDS\I-DEAS10\s Notepad to review the files...just don't edit anything) There may be some more clues in there.

Also, were you given a permanent license for this machine or one with a timeout? Did you on this machine? If so, was it after your last install of the SW?

Did you do any editing of any of the files in the sec directory since your last install/license g Is the name of your machine J7L1Q9? -ed

1 feadude (Mechanical) hinterneder: I have checked all above. it is a perpetual license that was generated in this machine. I thin is one of the 3: 1.The desired vendor daemon is down. 2.hostid. how do i get my hostid? 3.Resource locking thank you feadude (Mechanical)

How do I set the lmhostid of my machine to what I have on my license file 00B0D0E965E5? My machine is set to 000000000000 thank you hinterneder (Mechanical) feadude,

try plugging your network connection back in b4 trying to get the hostid (it's from the NIC)

afterwards, try running lmtools.exe (ok to click the icon) under the sec dir, then make sure 'config. using services'. Then pick the 'start/stop/reread' tab, and try starting the license se -ed feadude (Mechanical)

hinterneder: Can you please elaborate on: "try plugging your network connection back in b4 trying to get the hostid (it's from the NIC I do not know how to get to NIC. In some of ur previous responces you had references to BTW and SW . What do these stan

In my LMTOOLS-system settings-Ethernet Address I have 000000000000. Is Ethernet Addr as hostid? This is what i get in my security log file: (eds_id10) Wrong hostid on SERVER line for license file: (eds_id10) C:\EDS\I-

DEAS10\sec\EDS_ID10.lic (eds_id10) SERVER line says 00b0d0e965e5, hostid is 000000000000 (eds_id10) Invalid hostid on SERVER line (eds_id10) CANNOT OPEN options file "C:\EDS\I-DEAS10\sec\eds_id10.opt" (lmgrd) eds_id10 using TCP-port 1328 (eds_id10) No valid hostids, exiting (lmgrd) Please correct problem and restart daemons. Thank you much LeonEng (Mechanical)

feadude, Do you have an ethernet card on your PC? The license file is generated for ethernet card w 00b0d0e965e5, while your system ID is 000000000000. Look like you don't have an ethern with an ethernet card with different system ID. feadude (Mechanical) LeonEng: I do not have an ethernet card. I have VIA REV2 USB UNIVERSAL HOST CONTROLLER. Here is my problem, the hostid monster: 1. In FLEXlm License Manager under Diagnostics Tab, Hostid's I have: 000000000002 2. In LMTOOLS under System Settings Tab, Ethernet Address I have: 000000000000 3. In my license file hostid is 00b0d0e965e5 4. This is what i get in my security log file: Wrong hostid on SERVER line for license file ....... SERVER line says 00b0d0e965e5, hostid is 000000000000 Invalid hostid on SERVER line As you can see I have three different hostids' instead of one. My machine at work has the same hostid of 00b0d0e965e5 for items 1, 2, 3 above. That is thank you

LeonEng (Mechanical)

feadude, Usually how Flexlm work is: detect ethernet card hostid -> match with license file -> releas I'm not sure whether Ideas license would work without an registered ethernet card. Did th support mention on this when they provide the license file? hinterneder (Mechanical) feadude,

As far as I'm aware (as of IMS9):

1) License files only work on the machine they are generated on (which also requires a MA them to be tied to). If this changed, you likely need to talk with SDRC/EDS or your Reselle

2) MAC is short for something, I don't remember, but means the hardware address (differe NIC), which is also what I-DEAS uses (or at least what the 'FLEXlm license manager' inside for the 'hostid'.

2) NIC is short for 'Network Interface Card', which is what the network cable plugs into, an MAC is physically identifying (no two alike, used for security)

3) BTW is 'by the way', and SW refers to SoftWare (above) or possibly SolidWorks, depend context.

4) You should find a way to get the install manual for 10, read it, and then try installing on per those instructions (which likely requires you to have a NIC and possibly that it is plugge a hub).

As of IMS9, I am not aware of a way to run the license server on a machine without a NIC. changed things for 10. Best Regards, Ed feadude (Mechanical) This is what I found out under I-DEAS10 hardware requirements: Other Requirements Ethernet Adapter (for TCP/IP support) How do I check to see if I have the ethernet card? And if I do not have it which brand and part no is good for I-DEAS? I am going to get an installation guide manual and check it too. Thank you for your help and directions

2 RCDLtd (Automotive) I-DEAS licensing runs off the HostID which, for a PC, is present in the Network Adapter. No HostID.

When the Take Home License is generated from the Fully licensed server, I believe the app generates the license needs both the Host Name and HostID of the "Home" PC.

Easisest Solution, fit a network card, get the Host ID, recut the Take Home License for that with your PC's Host Name. feadude (Mechanical)

I called VIA TECH and he told me that my "VIA REV 2 USB UNIVERSAL HOST CONTROLLER Ethernet card. I have a network card after all. Sorry for my previous posting that I wrote: " an ethernet card." I was wrong. I am back to square one again. (now what?). I read somewhere that my computer could be than one NIC, MAC, NETWORK CARD,etc, like maybe my computer is reading my modem a interface card. Could this be causing the hostid discrepancy monster? thank you

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Hello RCDltd: How do I find the Take home license (strings)location in the server ? Under which director Thank you for your help. feadude (Mechanical)

Location The Take Home License Utility is provided in the %SDRC_INSTL%\sec\LicUtil ($SDRC_INS - UNIX) folder of your I-DEAS installation. The utility is delivered as two executables (takeh takehometx.exe) and one script (licutil.cmd/.sh) in the LicUtil folder.

raymondlin (Mechanical) Thank you Feadude. hinterneder (Mechanical) feadude,

So, as indicated in the 2/20 post, you need to have the NIC active (ie, plugged into someth router/switch), as otherwise windows doesn't seem to pickup the HostID (ie, the MAC addr If you plug it in, and the hostid comes out to be the same as the one you already have the (and not all zero's), you'd be all set.

If (as sounds more likely) the hostid comes back different (and not all zero's), you can then suggested above for the 'take-home' license generation (but I would leave the network plug that process, just in case).

You could try generating the 'take home' license using all zero's, though I'd be surprised if t worked, as that would generate a license that is essentially not tied to any one computer... Hope this helps. Best Regards, -Ed feadude (Mechanical)

hinterneder I tried all zeros and as u suggested it might not work, it did not work. Next I am going to tr something into NIC so i get the MAC. But this is just a home pc with no network server. I have 2 questions 1. What do I plug into NIC? I should buy it whatever it is because I do not have anything li home. 2.Does the other end of this device (ie: router/swith which I am not familiar with) have to b to a server or another computer to get the MAC? thank you

RCDLtd (Automotive) feadude,

You must have a HostID. All 0's mean that you do not have one and this will not work for li DEAS. The HostID is present in the Network Adapter whether it is plugged into a network or not.

I'm not sure what kind of Network Adapter you have or whether it is propoerly installed. I w you install a 10/100 Ethernet (RJ45) Network Adapter into your machine and check, throug manager, that "Device is working propoerly". This should be a fairly inexpensive item, say $

Whether this is connected to a network/switch/hub or not this should then give your PC a H

Once you have been able to get a HostID on your PC then move on to the next stage of cu Home License. Good Luck. raymondlin (Mechanical) Hello everyone:

I want to generate a takehome license for another hostid (another pc)from my pc, which m server right now, and the sdrc is running fine. I have checked my system A200 has been in setup_varbs.cmd is pointing at %SDRC_INSTL%/sec for security, but when I execute the takehomeui.exe, it give me an error: Unable to obtain server information from security database. Is that mean that my secDB.dat is corrupt ? How to solve this problem ? Anyone can help Please.

1 RCDLtd (Automotive) Are you running a license cut specifically for your Server, ie. the top line of your license file Server's HostID or are you running a demo license where the HostID "ANY" is in the top lin license file. The latter won't permit you to cut a takehome license. It's unlikely that secDB.dat is corrupt if I-DEAS is running correctly. abdozdak (Mechanical)

Hi everybody ive just installed IDEAS 8 on my personal pc. i have win XP pro on my machine when i want to launch the program i got an error indicating team lock server type is configu appropriatly or it is not exist at all. where can i set the type of lock server? feadude (Mechanical)

I finally got a hostid and IDEAS is runnig. Thank u for ur help. What is the expiration date for a take home license? Is it perpetual or 12 month? When I entered the take home license password somewhere it gave me a date for expiratio for 03/05 . Is this true? Do I need to get another take home password in 12 month even if

new release in over a year. The original IDEAS maintenance we pay it once a year but the is for ever even if we do not get the hot line and maintenance? thank you onix (Electrical)

Those having problems with all 0's in their host id and are running W2K should check out th Macrovision:

http://www.macrovision.com/services/support/flexlm/problem_resolution.shtml#win2khost
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