using a real machine with the USB dongle on and share it via USB-over-IP to the clients (LAN only)Ī VM seems a bit overkill for now, but if there is any benefit from this option, please enlighten me.The Sentinel Hardware Key (SHK) public memory backup instructions are placed below. using a real machine with the USB dongle on and access this machine via VNC They would give us a 2nd key only if we purchase a 2nd license and this would be around $15k.Īs for the VM option, I'm currently thinking about: I didn't understand the 1st part of your answer. still let you acess the software from pretty much any computer behind your company's firewall. reduce significantly the risks of damage / loss of the keyī. You could setup a server with a VM & the key plugged into that, and connect remotely to use the software.Ī. you may perhaps be able to go around the problem entirely. You're pretty much stuck here for this (as other have said) illegal usage of the product. Maybe you coul ask for another key ? but then that would 1000% defy the purpose. Yeah no, these keys are encrypted and you have pretty much 0 chances of figuring out the key to acess the data. Thank you very much in advance for your help and advice.Īre you sure there arn't other solutions ? Is there any way I could clone the USB dongle myself? Without significant cost and without involving a third party?
Probably not since it contains a chip of some sort, I guess. Generally it involves "dumping" the content of the dongle into a file by using a dedicated software and then sending the dump file and a copy of the installation file of our specific software to the guys that will design a custom software clone of our dongle and then sell it to us.Ģ) Physical clone: I wonder if there was a way to maybe make a physical clone of our dongle. The USB dongle shows up in Device Manger as 2 devices: " Sentinel HASP Key" and " Sentinel HL Key".ġ) Software clone: I googled for ways to clone it and found numerous website that offer to clone our dongle for a fee. This is exactly what I fear: all of us would be blocked from using the software for a long time. They said if we lose or break the USB dongle, they might replace it but this would take weeks. They can sell us another key but that would be the price of a 2nd license. I contacted the seller and they say they cannot give us a backup dongle. I'm scared at some point we'll just lose it or brake it for good. However, since multiple people use the software and pass the USB dongle around, we almost lost or broke it several times already. We recently purchased a very expensive piece of software that requires a hardware key (USB dongle) in order to work (license).
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