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Have you considered a HASP? Or more commonly known as a "dongle"? Literally,
this thing plugs into a parallel port. Its registers can be changed to match
whatever licensing plan you will deploy. It can sit between the PC and the
printer. Plus the license can travel if necessary, and the software on the
PC from whence the dongle came will suddenly be unable to run. Short of
that, maybe a licensing server, but I don't know how complex you want your
licensing.


"Remy Lebeau (TeamB)" <gambit47.no.spam@no.spam.yahoo.com> wrote in message
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> "Ulli K�nig" <Ulrich.St.Koenig@t-online.de> wrote in message
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> > I am looking for a possibilty to get a identification
> > of the computer.
>
> There is no such standard identification available.
>
> > I need this for a password check  and to avoid the the
> > software is copied to another PC, using the same password.
>
> Good luck.  People have been trying to solve that delemna for *years*.
>
> > The idea is to install the software, ask for the id-no and send
> > this id-no per e-mail back. I will create a key number, send it
> > back and only both numbers together let the software works.
>
> One way would be to use an ID number from the machine's physical hardware,
> such as a network card MAC address, hard drive serial number, etc.
However,
> if the user needs to change the hardware for any reason, the password will
> become invalid and they will have to receive a new one.
>
> Another option would be to generate an ID number dynamically independant
of
> hardware, such as a GUID.  That way, even if the hardware changes, the
GUID
> remains the same.  However, that would require you to store the GUID
> somewhere, and if something ever happens to that stored value, the
password
> becomes invalid as well.  Plus the stored value could be copied to another
> computer, unless you encrypt it with something unique to the machine, but
> then you're back to the issue of changing hardware invalidating your data.
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> Gambit
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