ProSeries 2007 Network Client
Has anyone had any experience packaging this application? Successfully? I am able to get the application working properly, but am having trouble getting it to recognize that it is licensed. I think it may have something to do with .NET 2.0 and a missing configuration. Everything works fine, it just doesn't reflect that it is licensed.
I have copied the license file to the application data directory, which was already there anyway, and this still did not work. Ths is a setup capture, i have covered all the basics, file permission, registry permissions, filemon, regmon, etc.. I just cannot get my package to license.. The setup capture machine is licensed, obviously, and obviously any machine that I install manually will be licensed.. I just can't get a deployed package workstation to license.
ANyone?
I have copied the license file to the application data directory, which was already there anyway, and this still did not work. Ths is a setup capture, i have covered all the basics, file permission, registry permissions, filemon, regmon, etc.. I just cannot get my package to license.. The setup capture machine is licensed, obviously, and obviously any machine that I install manually will be licensed.. I just can't get a deployed package workstation to license.
ANyone?
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Posted by:
India_Repackaging
16 years ago
Hi,
I have faced similar problems in the past and have solved this by a method that is vastly used by application packagers.
I suggest you install you .msi file. Now start a snapshot (using any tool, I prefer the Picture Taker). Post completion of the first snapshot, install the setup.exe file. After complete installation of the setup, take the second snapshot.
Now when you launch/check the licensing is correctly applied. The resultant delta will have the answer to your problem.
Worth a try I beleive [;)]
Cheers
I have faced similar problems in the past and have solved this by a method that is vastly used by application packagers.
I suggest you install you .msi file. Now start a snapshot (using any tool, I prefer the Picture Taker). Post completion of the first snapshot, install the setup.exe file. After complete installation of the setup, take the second snapshot.
Now when you launch/check the licensing is correctly applied. The resultant delta will have the answer to your problem.
Worth a try I beleive [;)]
Cheers
Posted by:
anonymous_9363
16 years ago
Rajit's suggestion is valid but with an important proviso: many license-creation routines use the computername, processor serial number or some other, unique identifier to hash the license/serial number. It therefore follows that if you copy any license created on machine A to machine B, the detail(s) used will be different on machine B and therefore the license will be invalid.
You should probably talk to the vendor to ask their advice about deploying pre-licensed to multiple workstations. I suspect you may have to purchase a network-licensed/Enterprise edition or whatever.
You should probably talk to the vendor to ask their advice about deploying pre-licensed to multiple workstations. I suspect you may have to purchase a network-licensed/Enterprise edition or whatever.
Posted by:
inr32
16 years ago
Thanks for the replies.. I hope I didn't come off as a newbie to the technology, I have been packaging for over 5 years now. I just hit a roadblock and was pulling out my hair.. I tried all of the above, and the vendor sure wasn't any help.
I finally got it to work, but it is still a bit of a mystery to me.. the only obvious change was that I did not capture the install of the entitlement client (licensing plugin), and instead ran it as a nested msi..
Finally finished it up. THanks again.. I am a long time lurker, first time poster
I finally got it to work, but it is still a bit of a mystery to me.. the only obvious change was that I did not capture the install of the entitlement client (licensing plugin), and instead ran it as a nested msi..
Finally finished it up. THanks again.. I am a long time lurker, first time poster
Posted by:
anonymous_9363
16 years ago
ORIGINAL: inr32It would be really useful to post the details of the issue and your work-around into the Package Knowledgebase http://www.appdeploy.com/packages/ if you have time.
I finally got it to work, but it is still a bit of a mystery to me.. the only obvious change was that I did not capture the install of the entitlement client (licensing plugin), and instead ran it as a nested msi..
Posted by:
inr32
16 years ago
good idea, I know the package knowledgbase has helped me out in the past, hopefully it will help someone else in the future.
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