Running Proe on a external HD or USB Key

[Quaz]

Hi there,

Do you think it's possible?
Floating licence, Flexlm will be configured with the varous
PC MAC adress.
Any suggestions?

KRgds,

 

[jnoval]

It is possible to run ProE from a usb hardisk.But license
will be a problem. Licenses are using Network card's MAC
ID. If you use different pc (and different network card)
you will not be able to use same licenses.
A option could be to put a floating license on a windows
virtual pc that you have as image on your usb harddisk.
Or you can run ProE with license in windows virtual pc.
You will need to have a in dept knowledge of ProE
installation and license setup.
Another question are if this setup are legal.

 

[dr_gallup]

As long as every machine you plug the hard drive on can see the license server it should run no problem. I never install Pro/E on workstations, only on server and mount the drive on the workstation, pretty much the same thing.

I do modify the PATH environment variable to include the loadpoint/bin directory but that is just to run other PTC batch files like purge.bat or ptcstatus.bat. I also put a shortcut to the Pro/E startup batch file on the desktop so you may need to do these steps on each machine you move the drive to.

 

[Quaz]

Many thanks for your reply.
I will try tomorrow and let you know if it runs smoothly.
KRgds,