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14-Alexandrite
June 2, 2017
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Installation Issue

  • June 2, 2017
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Hello,

At my company, they bought 3 floating licenses.

Now we already downloaded Creo, but nobody knows how to install it! Should I maintain my licenses on the server? On the local machine? Does anybody has a guide? Should I install other software first?

Thank you.

Best answer by TomU

If you paid for floating licenses then you might as well install them that way.  You will need a computer (or real server) to act as the license server.  You will need to request a license file from PTC based on the MAC address of this license server.  Once you have the license file you can install the license manager on the server and add your new license file to it.  On the clients you just have to install the Creo software and then point it to this license server.  There shouldn't be any prerequisites to installing Creo (that aren't already included in the download).

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23-Emerald IV
June 2, 2017

If you paid for floating licenses then you might as well install them that way.  You will need a computer (or real server) to act as the license server.  You will need to request a license file from PTC based on the MAC address of this license server.  Once you have the license file you can install the license manager on the server and add your new license file to it.  On the clients you just have to install the Creo software and then point it to this license server.  There shouldn't be any prerequisites to installing Creo (that aren't already included in the download).

14-Alexandrite
June 6, 2017

Ok, now I found a problem.

I can´t install the FlexNet on the server since is not compatible (too old). Do you know a solution for that?

23-Emerald III
June 6, 2017

That is hard to go around.

Upgrade the server OS to an approved level, Windows Server 2003/2008/2012 or Windows 7 or 8 may also be used.

Use a different machine for the license manager. ou can use one of the workstations as the license server for the other 2.

I am assuming that the workstations are up-to-date with Windows 7 or 10.

24-Ruby III
June 3, 2017

Hi,

Question: Why you did not ask your PTC VAR for a help ?

MH