Registering Inventor 8?

[Tristan Lall]

Originally Posted by sanddrag

How do you register/authorize Inventor 8 that we got. When I run it and click authorize and click the link to https://register.autodesk.com/ and go through all that, it brings me to a screen for FLEXIm network and asks for Host name and Host ID. I haver no idea what these are for or what they are?

When I try to register it through the program itself (not clicking link), it comes up with an error #20.

What should I do?

FlexLM is a licence manager server. I was hoping that this wouldn't be necessary, but what it often requires is a network connection to a computer running the FlexLM server service, whenever a workstation tries to access the actual CAD software. Depending on the application, sometimes, you can configure the workstation to act as its own server, but depending on the exact details of the copies of software we received, that may not be possible--and I wouldn't be surprised if the software "phoned home" on its initial use, to mark the licence server as being allocated to a specific MAC address (which is in turn unique--usually--to the network card). Some versions of Pro/E do something similar, and for the same reason, I can't access AutoCAD 2002 on a GM laptop at home, because it isn't connected to a valid domain with the requisite FlexLM server.
In short, I don't know what to do in particular, but that may clear some of it up for you.