RhinoMarine Network Licensing

Copyright Alion Science and Technology

With a network license, anyone on the network can use the software, as long as the number of users does not exceed the number of licenses that you have purchased. For example, if you have purchased a single user network license, and it is currently in use by someone else, when you try to run RhinoMarine you will be notified that the license is in use, and that you will have to try again later.

Installation of a Network License

The installation of the Network License consists of two steps; installing  and licensing RhinoMarine with the Network License on the License Server computer, and installing and licensing RhinoMarine on each of the other computers in the network that will be using RhinoMarine (client computers).

1. Installation on the License Server

One computer must be selected as the license server. This does not necessarily have to be the "file server" in your network; it can be any computer, but it should be one that is always available to other users in the network (i.e. not a laptop that is sometimes removed from the network).

On the License Server:

• Install Rhino and RhinoMarine
• When you start Rhino, select License from the RhinoMarine menu. You will see the RhinoMarine Licensing dialog, showing that you have a 15-day trial license:

 

• Using the Site Code, purchase a Network License with one or more users from Proteus Engineering or your local reseller. You will receive a Site Key, which you should use to activate your license. The yellow "Limited" icon should now be a green "Active" icon, together with a message stating that you have a Network License. Click on Continue.

• IMPORTANT: Any computer that will be using the Network License must have full control privileges in the directory on the License Server computer where RhinoMarine is installed (usually c:\program files\Proteus Engineering\RhinoMarine4).

 

2. Installing on a Client Computer

Each computer that will be using RhinoMarine with the Network License must go through the licensing process. This one-time process is as follows:

• Install Rhino and RhinoMarine on the Client computer.

• When you start Rhino, if the Licensing dialog does not appear, click on License in RhinoMarine menu. You will see the Licensing dialog, showing the status of your license.

• If this is the first installation of RhinoMarine on this computer, you should have a 15-day Evaluation license.

• Be sure that there is a license available (the network licenses are not all currently in use by other computers).

• Select Browse for a Network License...

• Click on the browse button ( ... ) to locate the file rm4.exe on the Network License server computer. This is normally in the directory c:\program files\Proteus Engineering\RhinoMarine4 on the computer that is the Network License server (do not use the rm4.exe that resides on the Client computer). Once you have located the file, click on Get License.

• You will be returned to the RhinoMarine Licensing dialog, and the icon will now be green, showing that you have successfully licensed this copy of RhinoMarine using the Network license.

 

Using a Network License

When you execute any RhinoMarine command, it checks to verify that you have a valid license, which could be a trial license, a standalone license, or a network license. If your copy of RhinoMarine has a network license, it must verify that there is a license available (that is, the network license(s) that you have are not already in use). If there is a license available, the command will run normally. If a license is not available the first time that you attempt to use a RhinoMarine command in a Rhino session, you will see the RhinoMarine Licensing dialog:

 

When you click Continue, or if this was not the first time you have tried to run a RhinoMarine command in this Rhino session, you will see the following Security Alert:

Click on OK, and wait for or ask another RhinoMarine user to exit Rhino (which will release the RhinoMarine license).

 

Moving a Network License to Another Computer

If the computer that is the RhinoMarine Network License server is going to be unavailable (for example, it's a laptop that is going to be taken out of the network), the Network License can be moved to another computer that has RhinoMarine installed on it. This transfer process can be done either from the current Network License server, or the computer that is to become the Network License server.

IMPORTANT: Once the transfer has been done, any other computers in the network that use the RhinoMarine Network License will have to Browse for the License in the new location.

From the Current Network License Server:

• Be sure that there are not any other computers currently using the Network License.

• Be sure that the computer that will become the Network License server is turned on and available on the network.

• On the Current Network License server, Start Rhino, and select License from the RhinoMarine menu.

• On the RhinoMarine Licensing dialog, click on the License menu, then select Move a License Between Computers.

• Select one of the transfer methods in the Move RhinoMarine License dialog, and follow the steps as described.

• On each computer that uses the RhinoMarine Network License, you will need to Browse for the License in the new location. This is the same process that was done when the client computer was first set up to use the RhinoMarine Network License