Access to Siliconcoach Server 7 and Timewarp Server 7 is typically provided in one of two ways:

1. Each user creates a user account using the login dialog in the application using their email address and a password that they choose. The users are then provided with the company id and using this and their own account, they can login to the server. This is the recommended solution if you wish to provide your users with access to the server from their own PC’s because if a user fails to return a floating license due to a network outage then there is a way to track down who is holding the license open.
2. A single user account is setup by an administrator and the details are provided to each student. Eg siliconcoach@somewhere.com. This is the typical setup selected by administrators for a lab setup.

Given that scenario 2 seeks to streamline the login process for users, we’ve created a tool to assist this even further such that an admin can create a config file that is distributed to the pc’s along with the application. When the application runs and the file is found then it will be automatically loaded and all the user needs to do is click Request License. Note that this config file is encrypted so any details you put into it are safe to casual inspection.

The rest of this document describes how you use the config tool

Download

You can download the tool from http://software.siliconcoach.com/utilities/siliconcoachserverloginconfigtool.zip

Creating a config file

1. Open the siliconcoachServerLoginConfigTool.exe application

2.    Enter the COMPANY ID.
3.    Enter the USERNAME that you’ve created for all users to make use of. Note that you should have previously created an email account for this user on your mail server and signed up for a siliconcoach server account by running the server application and using the dialog provided.
4.    Enter the PASSWORD
5.    If you use a proxy server on your system then check the proxy server box and enter the PROXY URL and PORT. If you also make use of proxy authentication then enter the username and password.
6.    If your siliconcoach server setup provides for checking licenses out then place a check mark in the SHOW CHECKED OUT LICENSE CHECK BOX. This will reveal the checkbox on the login dialog so that users may choose from either floating or checked out licenses.
7.    Select FILE – SAVE and navigate to the folder that you wish to save the file into. Note that in order for the application to read the file, the file needs to be in the same folder as the application. Note also that the filename is set by the config tool to ServerLicenseConfig.dat, this is the required name for this config file.

Editing a config file
1.    Open the siliconcoachServerLoginConfigTool.exe application
2.    Click on FILE – OPEN
3.    Navigate to the file and open it.
4.    The file will be read and its data loaded into the fields of the config tool.