WIBU Network Dongle Connectivity
Introduction
This page contains help for when you are unable to run TUFLOW from a network dongle.
Check that the network server is configured correctly
In order to be able to access a network dongle, the dongle must be in a machine which is configured as a network server. For steps in configuring this please see here: Configure Wibu Server. In particularly the check box Run Network Server must be enabled on this machine.
Check that TUFLOW can find a licence on the server
If the server has been correctly configured, the next step should be to ensure that TUFLOW can find the network licence from the server. If you are unable to run TUFLOW on the server, you will be unable to run over a network connection!
Even if you do not plan to use TUFLOW on the server, this is a very good diagnostic step. TUFLOW does not need to be installed, as it runs as a stand-alone console application. To check that TUFLOW can find a licence on the server, the steps are:
- Download the latest version of TUFLOW from the TUFLOW downloads page.
- Extract the files from the .zip file. In the extract folder, there will be two .exe (executable files). The iSP is the single precision version and iDP is double precision, for the purpose of checking the licence, it does not matter at all! Double click on either of the executables. When TUFLOW is started with an input model file, TUFLOW will perform a licence check and the pause.
- If the network licence is correctly being detected, the output window will display the below.