Nice job cantug, I'm jealous haha

Firewall doesn't seem to be blocking anything at the office. I just uploaded the default nethasp along with the custom one I modified to access the office network. Maybe the formatting is wrong somewhere?

nethasp (custom).ini

nethasp (default).ini

33 minutes ago, gcode said:

ok..  the nethasp.ini files needs to be here

"C:\Program Files\Mastercam 2020\Mastercam\nethasp.ini"

and there has to be a copy in the root of each Mastercam install

the same file will work for any version of MC... but it must be in the root of that version

If all that is correct I'd look at the log files for your antivirus software and see if it is blocking something

or just shut you AV off and see if you can connect to the license

 

also make sure the ini file is still an ini file

I have seen cases where the ini file is opened in Notepad, edited then saved as txt

 

 

Hey I really appreciate the quick response! The file is in the right location and the file name is just "nethasp", but the type of file is still .ini as shown in the picture.

As for the AV, the computer I'm testing with currently does not have one.

18 hours ago, SN_MCam_User said:

Not an IT expert by any stretch...but having a well-working network is certainly a pre-requisite.  Can you ping the remote license machine from home?  My VPN is a 'gateway to gateway' so may cause things to be different than other VPN setups.  

I 'simply' add the IP address of the remote server on my home PC nethasp.ini file.  (located in D:\Program Files\Mastercam 2020\Mastercam in my case).   Not 100 % certain...but I'd make sure you place the entry in the right section of the file...

[NH_TCPIP]

NH_SERVER_ADDR = xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx  <----Your server remote LAN IP address here...

I cannot remember if I had to open any ports or change firewall rules - gut says no - but then again it's one of those things ya set and move on. If I can manage to remember, I'll check tomorrow.

Thanks, I do have the NH_SERVER_ADDR pointing to the correct IP address. Everything appears fine as far as the VPN goes. I'm able to ping and access shared folders.

18 hours ago, gcode said:

Did you open the nethasp.exe file and set it to network

It is set to network, not local

10 hours ago, gcode said:

the default nethasp.ini file has 2 semicolons in front of this line

;; NH_SERVER_ADDR = xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx  <----Your server remote LAN IP address here...

they must be removed or the line will be ignored

 

also 

if you are having trouble, this first step is to be sure you can ping the license server from the remote PC

if you can't, that problem must be solved first 

 

I removed both semi colons but it's still not able to locate the license server. Pinging works fine. thank you

I apologize in advance if this is posted in the wrong category. 

We have a network license for mastercam. Due to the whole corona situation, I would like to set it up where a user could access it from home through VPN. However, the program is not detecting the network license through the VPN. I found a few threads regarding this situation and they suggested making modifications to the nethasp.ini file. I tried that but I'm still running into the same problem.

Any suggestions?

Thank you!