Hasp for home

[vince cannarozzo]

It does work with mastercam,but it is not supported.

[gcode]

At my last job, SolidWorks and NX5 licenses

were located on a coperate network hub in South Carolina. Running the program in SoCal, 3000

miles away, you couldn't tell the difference.

 

I'm surprised people aren't setting up license hubs and renting access to people/companies via the internet.

It probably violates the licensing agreement for

all CAD/CAM software, but there is no techological

reason it couldn't be done.

[Dave.L]

It would be nice to use a NET license but CNC software does not allow this for just 1-seat which is lame. The idea would be to access the software anywhere in your shop (one user at a time) without lugging around the HASP

[Josh Kinney -Elite Engineering]

I've used a Belkin USB Network Hub to access a Hasp on our internal network, I see no reason why you couldn't do the same remotely.

 

Josh.

[Chris Bell CNC Software]

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Chris.. I have to take issue with this..

If you are accessing the nethasp via a VPN tunnel,

you are running the app on the computer at home.

Only license inquiries travel back and forth over the internet.. everything else is running

on the home computer.

I've never tried this with Mastercam, but

Vericut rocks on my Win7x64 workstation at home.

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Ahh but we're talking about a HASP, not a NetHASP

 

This has been done by customers with NetHASPs doing exactly what Tom stated, but it is not a supported method.

[Dave.L]

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I've used a Belkin USB Network Hub to access a Hasp on our internal network, I see no reason why you couldn't do the same remotely.

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Josh,

 

Please elaborate if you don't mind. Thanks.

[moldbuilder]

Chris, are you talking about the wireless hub? Im not sure I understand how this would work remotely,can you elaborate?

[Jim at Gentex]

A word of caution about Remote Desktop...

 

This has long been a HUGE security flaw in Windows.

 

I don't know if it has been addressed in Windows 7, but an IT professional friend of mine told me it's risky to use it in up to and including Windows XP.

 

He told me that when you have Remote Desktop enabled it is akin to leaving your front door wide open. You may not get robbed, but you sure are taking a risk.

[Dave.L]

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A word of caution about Remote Desktop...

 

This has long been a HUGE security flaw in Windows.

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I use it thru a VPN, I think that's a different story.

[Jim at Gentex]

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I use it thru a VPN, I think that's a different story.

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You may be correct there, Dave.

I'm not 100% sure.

 

All I know is that a friend of mine works in the IT department for a giant insurance company, and he told me that someone compromised their network in his branch office. They did some forensic computer checking and found that someone in their office had Remote Desktop enabled so they could do some work from home. When they traced the intruder's activity, they found that the intruder gained entry to the company net through that particular terminal.

 

Luckily, the intruder only poked around a bit, then left without doing any damage. My friend was relieved because that could have been a major incident if they started downloading files or deleting stuff.

 

He said after that incident, they tightened their corporate policy to exclude the use of Remote Desktop on ANY of their computers.

 

Coincidentally, his branch office has had no intrusions since.

[bhayden10]

I have tried to run mastercam through log me in from home but it gives me an error that it can't find the sim. I only have a single user sim. does that mean it won't work at all remotely or do i need to do something?

[Dave.L]

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You may be correct there, Dave.

I'm not 100% sure.

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Many people run remote desktop just thru the net. When you have a VPN (and I have a VPN firewall router) you need to first get passed that piece of hardware, via the VPN.

 

I have the same hardware at my home and business and I can tell you it's sometimes a challenge to set up even when you know the settings. Pretty tough to break in.

[Brian B 74]

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The best way to do this is convert your companies SIMS to a nethasp. Then you can access the sim via a VPN tunnel from home. I do this with my employeer's Vericut, NX and Catia licenses. I don't bother with Mastercam because I own my own sim.

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We have a nethasp and I have been trying for awhile for a way to access it from home. Is there any documentation anywhere explaining how to set this up? This would be HUGE for me.

[Jayson Kramer]

Sorry there is not. are you logging into your network as yourself from home over VPN?

[Brian B 74]

Right now I am not doing anything. Boss has given me the thumbs up to work from home - as long as I don't remove the nethasp from the building. Tried using port forwarding and stuff like that in the network router with no luck.

[freza]

use demo version

[The_Evil_Machinist]

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A word of caution about Remote Desktop...

 

This has long been a HUGE security flaw in Windows

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Hmmmm, this works just fine in mac OS X

 

With windows xp it's not as bad as people make it out to be. Yea you can break into it but it's time consuming and you'd know. It would slow your connection down to almost nothing. Plus, how are people gonna know you're using it? Unless you're already infected hackers (script kiddies) aren't gonna know what you're doing or even bother looking for ya.

 

But I do like your linux tinfoil hat methodology of security

[Josh Kinney -Elite Engineering]

Remote desktop blows a@#!!

 

This is what I use....

http://www.fabulatech.com/usb-over-network.html

[htm01]

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I have tried to run mastercam through log me in from home but it gives me an error that it can't find the sim. I only have a single user sim. does that mean it won't work at all remotely or do i need to do something?

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are you trying to run MC @ home?that you can not do but you remote in on your work computer and run MC on that.

[Josh Kinney -Elite Engineering]

you can remote connect to your hasp. link above

[Matthew Hajicek - Singularity]

Cool. So could you post the info I'd need to connect to your hasp?

[Jayson Kramer]

LOL at MATT ya man post a link for all of us.How many lic you have on the net hasp.

[Josh Kinney -Elite Engineering]

Theoretically......

 

No need for a NetHasp. Standard Hasp works fine. I did this when I was in Flagstaff, connected to the Hasp that was plugged into my PC in Washington State and ran X4 locally on my Laptop at the Airport.... Gotta have a little skill to setup the connections but not a big deal...

[Josh Kinney -Elite Engineering]

I should mention:

 

This does not defeat the security feature of the Hasp. Only one user can connect at a time! You basically "check out" the Hasp.

[Brian B 74]

I am going to test this out this weekend. I have 9 molds coming my way and the boss offered to pay me to program from home at night (like a part time job).

 

Will see how it works this weekend. Thanks for the link Josh.