Re: Copies of your app running on the local net

2006-05-30 Thread Paul Claude
Suppose that you want to accommodate for the possibility to change user names. You would have to supply new license codes all the time. This doesn't only undermine the protective power of your licensing scheme, it also increases the danger of old license codes being lost and found by

Copies of your app running on the local net

2006-05-29 Thread Paul Claude
Two shareware questions: 1) There is a way to determine if there is more than one copy of your app running on a local net (to check the use of the right shareware license by your customer)? 2) To create a license code for your customer that include the computer User Name ($USER - to avoid

Re: Copies of your app running on the local net

2006-05-29 Thread Mark Schonewille
Hello Paul, reply 1) Yes, you can broadcast a UDP request and make all copies on the network send (part of) their serial number to compare them with the serial number of the newly opened copy of your application. reply 2) Yes, you can use USER$ on some platforms, but not all. You can

Re: Copies of your app running on the local net

2006-05-29 Thread Paul Claude
Thanks Mark. reply 1) Yes, you can broadcast a UDP request and make all copies on the network send (part of) their serial number to compare them with the serial number of the newly opened copy of your application. Did you know if exists some example stack around, to perform and answer to an

Re: Copies of your app running on the local net

2006-05-29 Thread Alex Tweedly
Paul Claude wrote: Thanks Mark. reply 1) Yes, you can broadcast a UDP request and make all copies on the network send (part of) their serial number to compare them with the serial number of the newly opened copy of your application. Did you know if exists some example stack around,

Re: Copies of your app running on the local net

2006-05-29 Thread Paul Claude
on 29-05-2006 16:56, Alex Tweedly at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: There is a sample UDP client and server in revonline under username alextweedly - it's just a very simple echo server and echo client, but should be a start for you. The UDP firewalled should be a problem. I wish I were that

Re: Copies of your app running on the local net

2006-05-29 Thread Mark Schonewille
Hello, Of course, if there is a firewall in place, it might render any check for copies of the software on the network useless. There are utilities such as LittleSnitch to prevent programmes from contacting the network and the internet. That's why I wrote that there is a hack for each

Re: Copies of your app running on the local net

2006-05-29 Thread Richard Gaskin
Mark Schonewille wrote: Of course, if there is a firewall in place, it might render any check for copies of the software on the network useless. There are utilities such as LittleSnitch to prevent programmes from contacting the network and the internet. That's why I wrote that there is a