Is converter license tied to user profile?

[savoy6]

I enabled the enterprise license on converter under my profile...when someone else logged into the same workstation the license feature was diasabled and I had to go back in aqnd enable the license.

Is this normal?

Thanks

[admin]

What profile was used to install Converter initially?

[savoy6]

It was a regular user profile. We have tested this with several user accounts and each time a different user logged in the license feature had to be enabled, but once enabled there were not any problems when the user logged in again

[LeaV97]

We've run into the same problem. Haven't found a solution.

[continuum · Accepted solution]

Check if the licence is mentioned here

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\VMware, Inc.

if yes - create a patch and run it for every user - or put the entry here

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\VMware, Inc.

[blackride]

It's definetly tied to profile. Has anyone worked around this problem and if so how?

Thanks!

[blackride]

There is also no information in

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\VMware, Inc.

[blackride]

OK, it looks like the license is per user based on the file p2vlcns. If you put that in the users \Application Data\Vmware directory it will work. Automating that is not a problem but I am confused why this functions this way...

[admin]

What happens when you install as administrator and run as users, rather than install as user and run as other users?

[blackride]

Same thing. We manually put the license file into the all users profile. This works but it's still a strange set up...