![]() ![]() I've had an odd time of it, for sure! I'm actually a desktop user that purchased Apprentice HD. exe file then… So… hopefully these problems will be properly fixed at some point, but this seems to be working at least so far. I guess that should be done for just about evey. Likewise, mplay also failed to start up until I changed its compatibility settings. However, it wants to do this on every startup, which is quite annoying… This problem was also magically solved by setting the compatibility mode for hmaster.exe to Vista SP2. When running Houdini after this, it demands to obtain Apprentice licenses on startup and actually runs (in HD mode) if I do it. Thus I added the following lines to $HFS\houdini\Licensing.opt: licensingMode = localValidator localValidatorDir = C:\Users\miika Finally I got three greens and OK in the License Administrator (I may or may not have reinstalled the licenses at this point). I decided to try and ditch the server stuff and go with local licensing instead following … For whatever reason, the license manager could not access the file C:\windows\keys\license.local so I also switched the directory for the license file. The HD licenses themselves installed nicely. Plugging to a physical network didn't help. The problem is that the license manager refused to install the SERVER key, and the server code kept changing every now and then. First of all, to avoid constant crashing with hkey.exe and sesinetd.exe, I changed both their compatibility settings to Windows Vista SP2. Hopefully this will help someone (or me, if I ever need to repeat this). My configuration is a Windows 7 64-bit over wifi. Here's what I ended up doing (not sure if all parts are relevant or if I just got lucky). Ok, I had some major licensing problems with Apprentice HD as well, but it seems I finally got it working. In case you opt for Licence server use File->Manually Enter Keys… and copy each key - SERVER - LICENSE Generic Houdini-Master-NonCommercial - LICENSE Generic Render-NonCommercial - LICENSE Generic Houdini-Escape-NonCommercial if needed at all to the input fields and that should be it. If you also feel the need to use Houdini Escape repeat the steps and now it's sufficient to choose only the LICENSE Generic Houdini-Escape-NonCommercial and add this to your licence file. Choosing Houdini master should give you three lines, which you copy into the licences file, save it and it should be ok. Go to, run hkey.exe and enter the server name and its server code you find on the server information tab into the web form. In that case C:\WINDOWS\keys\licenses is the place where you (better hkey should) save your licence information. Hi Azhul and Craig, if you have no hserver & sesinetd running, it's not a problem yet, that means only you have chosen Apprentice Licencing during installation. ![]()
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