Solidworks 2009 licence error

[theeldergeek]

Solidworks 2009

I run the program, it appears to start loading, then I get an error :

Could not obtain a licence for Solidworks Standard.
Cannot find licence file
(-1, 359, 2)


Any ideas?

[bossman]

@Tx2online :

Have you tried rereading or modifying your existing license file from the License administrator on the license server?

Has your license expired?

[theeldergeek]

@Tx2online :

Have you tried rereading or modifying your existing license file from the License administrator on the license server?

Has your license expired?

No, I wouldn't have a clue how to do this. Talkthrough?

No, definitely not.

[bossman]

@Tx2online:

Login to the license server itself which has the license dongle plugged into.

Then go to start>all programs>solidworks 2008>solidworks solidnetwork license manager> click on solidnetwork administrator.

Window comes up with several tabbed options you will see the Server administration tab, this is the one you want which will give you the option of rereading or modifying your license key.

Do you have the license key in txt file format it should end with the .lic extension just point it to this and click.

Hope this is of help.

[theeldergeek]

@Tx2online:

Login to the license server itself which has the license dongle plugged into.

Then go to start>all programs>solidworks 2008>solidworks solidnetwork license manager> click on solidnetwork administrator.

Window comes up with several tabbed options you will see the Server administration tab, this is the one you want which will give you the option of rereading or modifying your license key.

Do you have the license key in txt file format it should end with the .lic extension just point it to this and click.

Hope this is of help.

Ok, done all that, and I was informed the licence had been "re-read" but haven't had chance to see if it cured the problem. Will let you know.



Edit ; nope, not cured the problem. Back to the drawing board. SolidWorks support and forums are a waste of space :-(

[OverWorked]

I'm now having the same problem with Solidworks 2010. I've installed the license administrator on a server, created an administrative installation set to point to the license server. Installed from the administative image on a few machines and tested it OK.

I originally had a problem where the license server name had to be in the format 27534@server.domain.local, not just 27534@server.

I've just spent a whole day installing throughout the rest of the school, and come in this morning and none of them can obtain a license - not even the ones that could before.

EDIT: I've just found that reinstalling Solidworks on the clients fixes the problem. I haven't changed the administrative install image, though, so I'm not convinced it won't happen again.