TechSupp Posted July 4, 2014 Posted July 4, 2014 My school uses Cornerstones education planning documenst etc and Cortnerstones have now implemented an online 'hub', unfortunately to view the documents they require 'lock Lizard' to be installed on any PC needing to view the files! Anyone ever had any dealings with this software or even managed to install it via the network as an msi etc as it has to have a license file included in it. Not happy if it has to be installed on each PC as I finish here at the end of term!
TechSupp Posted July 4, 2014 Author Posted July 4, 2014 Well looks like there is an msi but you have to manually register the licence file with it afterwards. On another downer it wants to access the C drive and write details to an settings file...guess what...we have access to C drive blocked! Well weekends here so Monday will see me installing it on a server and seeing if it will run as a shared application. Not holding out much hope though.
Garacesh Posted July 4, 2014 Posted July 4, 2014 We had to throw this on the Performing Arts staff PC's when they bought some stuff to do with Grease, the musical. Essentially it's self-destruct DRM.. After $Date it prevents access to the files. Honestly can't say it gave us any trouble, unlike PDF OwnerGuard.
plexer Posted July 4, 2014 Posted July 4, 2014 Any chance of vitualising it with cameyo for example? Ben
free780 Posted July 4, 2014 Posted July 4, 2014 We had to throw this on the Performing Arts staff PC's when they bought some stuff to do with Grease, the musical. Essentially it's self-destruct DRM.. After $Date it prevents access to the files. Honestly can't say it gave us any trouble, unlike PDF OwnerGuard. That's the one. We installed it on 1 PC. Printed it off then just photocopied it.
TechSupp Posted July 4, 2014 Author Posted July 4, 2014 Yeah, I thought it was a bit of overkill and not really helpfull for alot of primary schools who.may not have a dedicated techy etc. Why not just use some of the protection features of a normal pdf?
Sam_Brown Posted July 5, 2014 Posted July 5, 2014 We pushed this out as an MSI a few weeks back. No issues with it. Just placed the license file in a shared area and tell the end users they need to run it before they can access the resources. All they need to do is double click the license file and it will run and license the computer to open the protected files so it's not a massive extra step. 1
nathan Posted July 7, 2014 Posted July 7, 2014 We pushed this out as an MSI a few weeks back. No issues with it. Just placed the license file in a shared area and tell the end users they need to run it before they can access the resources. All they need to do is double click the license file and it will run and license the computer to open the protected files so it's not a massive extra step. Does it require local admin rights? I haven't installed it yet but it says "may require admin rights". The school has spent £6k on this stuff, i would of hoped cornerstone would of made it more accessible than this.
TechSupp Posted July 7, 2014 Author Posted July 7, 2014 Fiddly! so I am finding out. Got the msi, set it to install but when I want to run the program it wants to write top the programdata folder and cant. Any ideas whats the best way to sort this?
Garacesh Posted July 7, 2014 Posted July 7, 2014 How many machines are going to be using this software? We found it easier to just manually install it on the 4 machines in the staff room than to faff about with virtualising or deploying it. Didn't have any fuss doing it that way. If it's not a site-wide thing, maybe save yourself some time and just toddle over and run the exe?
TechSupp Posted July 7, 2014 Author Posted July 7, 2014 Unfortunately they want this stuff on all PC's so they are not restricted to where they log in and use it etc. At the moment cant even get it to install via msi! Grrrrrrr
TechSupp Posted July 7, 2014 Author Posted July 7, 2014 Eventually done it! Still a faf to ask users to click a file afterwards though! Oh well, wheres Word to create a Dummys Guide now! 1
the_one_that_cant Posted July 7, 2014 Posted July 7, 2014 Well, this piece of software is installed in my schools Cornerstones don't want you to install on every machine, as we found out, I think the default licence issues is 25 machines, so that rules out the GPO installation out, unless you create a new OU with only -Teacher Machines, PPA machines, Staffroom machines in, or create a new usergroup with teachers in, so which machine they log in at, it works. (and breathe). Also we have deployed the licence file out as a startup script, and it seems to work (there is a section which allows you to create a batch file - will see if I can dig up the notes later). I don't see why they can't just issue a site licence for it, if they want it on all the machines the teachers use :-S
TechSupp Posted July 7, 2014 Author Posted July 7, 2014 Thanks, thats interesting. Would love to see how you did the license file automatically. Interesting about the amount to install on as well!
the_one_that_cant Posted July 7, 2014 Posted July 7, 2014 Fiddly! so I am finding out. Got the msi, set it to install but when I want to run the program it wants to write top the programdata folder and cant. Any ideas whats the best way to sort this? Possibly give users access to modify this folder? - - - Updated - - - Thanks, thats interesting. Would love to see how you did the license file automatically. Interesting about the amount to install on as well! I need to go to my second school this afternoon, and my info is on my laptop. Will be able to share once I get setup. Keep your eyes peeled.
TechSupp Posted July 7, 2014 Author Posted July 7, 2014 Yes, I mean why password protect files that are already on a site that is password protected? For ease of use to go that far why not just password protect the PDF files as normal.
the_one_that_cant Posted July 8, 2014 Posted July 8, 2014 (edited) My apologies. I didn't manage to get time to post it up. Sorry if you were waiting for it. Basically its a bat file that points to the pdf viewer and then runs the licence file on a startup script. ::Script to silently activate the school license for Lock Lizard PDF on Windows XP "C:\Program Files\Lizard Safeguard PDF Viewer\pdcviewer.exe" "\\servername\Server\share\schoolname.llv" /silent or ::Script to silently activate the school license for Lock Lizard PDF on Windows 7 "C:\Program Files (x86)\Lizard Safeguard PDF Viewer\pdcviewer.exe" "\\servername\Server\share\schoolname.llv" /silent I have created a locklizard folder in my msi folder on the server. In there is the .msi file, the licence file and the batch file (also a copy of a test document to test). Also the startup script goes on the same GPO as the MSI deploy. Edited July 8, 2014 by the_one_that_cant 1
milne6 Posted September 28, 2016 Posted September 28, 2016 Hello, sorry to jump on an old thread but I'm having some difficult like you guys had! I've installed Locklizard but as we restrict the C: Drive, end users cannot see the license file with the ProgramData Folder so it doesn't open. I tried doing what you guys have said, installing Locklizard but telling the users to run the license themselfs - that works great for the 1st user but other users after that cannot run the program - saying "cannot write to C:\ProgramData..." etc Any advice? Thanks
Garacesh Posted September 28, 2016 Posted September 28, 2016 I haven't touched it in a long while, but to steal a phrase, it "just worked". Then again we don't restrict C: drive. We hide it in Computer, but the staff can navigate to it by typing the path (kids can't though). They're not administrative accounts though so they, can't install anything. All I had to do was hop on the machine as the local Administrator account, install the license, and then any user on that machine could open the files.
3enjammin Posted July 24, 2017 Posted July 24, 2017 hello another jump on an old thread... I got it deployed, writing to programdata and registered but every file open requires a write back to their licensing server which fails. we are using a proxy expressed on each device (until we get our transparent proxy which I have been waiting for about 7 months for (hosted firewall)) to route through a (hosted) smoothwall and although smoothwall says the url is ok I cant get it going. Have contacted cornerstones. If they use a funny port then I will post it here. In the meantime can anyone throw me anything please? Cheers
MatthewW Posted July 28, 2017 Posted July 28, 2017 hello another jump on an old thread... I got it deployed, writing to programdata and registered but every file open requires a write back to their licensing server which fails. we are using a proxy expressed on each device (until we get our transparent proxy which I have been waiting for about 7 months for (hosted firewall)) to route through a (hosted) smoothwall and although smoothwall says the url is ok I cant get it going. Have contacted cornerstones. If they use a funny port then I will post it here. In the meantime can anyone throw me anything please? Cheers Had to contact Cornerstones to get lock lizard to whitelist our public IP range. Though it was Smoothwall to begin with but after a while i ruled that out & just went to Cornerstones. Maybe this is your issue? 1
3enjammin Posted July 28, 2017 Posted July 28, 2017 I have been in touch with cornerstones and they did whitelist the IP which enabled access to the site but the registration server still fails during operation when piping through the smoothwall. still waiting for a reply from the firewall guy (wish I had access)
3enjammin Posted September 6, 2017 Posted September 6, 2017 once https inspection was turned off on the smoothwall for the registration server url everything was fine ...
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