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ArchiCAD cannot find protection key? HELP...

Anonymous — Wed, 29 Jan 2025 16:31:46 GMT

Yes, I am running ArchiCAD 8.1 on a Mac OS X 10.2.8 and I can't seem to figure out why it is having problems finding the protection key..?! Any help on solving this problem will be much appreciated. Thanks!

Re: ArchiCAD cannot find protection key? HELP...

__archiben — Wed, 25 May 2005 06:16:32 GMT

junior wrote:
Yes, I am running ArchiCAD 8.1 on a Mac OS X 10.2.8 and I can't seem to figure out why it is having problems finding the protection key..?! Any help on solving this problem will be much appreciated. Thanks!

try downloading and installing the WIBU drivers again. does that help?

~/archiben

Re: ArchiCAD cannot find protection key? HELP...

Ben Odonnell — Wed, 25 May 2005 17:41:48 GMT

junior wrote:
Yes, I am running ArchiCAD 8.1 on a Mac OS X 10.2.8 and I can't seem to figure out why it is having problems finding the protection key..?! Any help on solving this problem will be much appreciated. Thanks!

Is it possible that you have the key plug connected to your keyboard?
If you do you will need to move it to an available port on your computer,
reason being is that the is not enough power going to the keyboard for the OS to drive the key plug.

Cheers,
Ben

Re: ArchiCAD cannot find protection key? HELP...

Karl Ottenstein — Wed, 25 May 2005 18:56:50 GMT

Ben wrote:
Is it possible that you have the key plug connected to your keyboard?
If you do you will need to move it to an available port on your computer,
reason being is that the is not enough power going to the keyboard for the OS to drive the key plug.

Huh. Works fine in my keyboard port.

Karl

Re: ArchiCAD cannot find protection key? HELP...

Ben Odonnell — Wed, 25 May 2005 19:25:01 GMT

Yes quiet strange really.Every time I plug a USB key plug into my MAC keyboard I get an error message, some thing along the lines of, "Not enough power to run the attached devise on the keyboard"

It started happening when I received my new G5, about 12 months ago.
On my old G4 I never had a problem.

Ben

Re: ArchiCAD cannot find protection key? HELP...

Anonymous — Wed, 25 May 2005 21:25:07 GMT

junior wrote:
Yes, I am running ArchiCAD 8.1 on a Mac OS X 10.2.8 and I can't seem to figure out why it is having problems finding the protection key..?! Any help on solving this problem will be much appreciated. Thanks!

Check to make sure that classic is not running. Everytime I have classic open the key does not respond for about a second or two.

Re: ArchiCAD cannot find protection key? HELP...

__archiben — Wed, 25 May 2005 21:45:17 GMT

Ben wrote:
Yes quiet strange really.Every time I plug a USB key plug into my MAC keyboard I get an error message, some thing along the lines of, "Not enough power to run the attached devise on the keyboard"

It started happening when I received my new G5, about 12 months ago.
On my old G4 I never had a problem.

it is strange . . . i saw this for the first time last week on a machine here. the AC keyplug was plugged into a keyboard but we needed to swap some data quickly with a guy who's laptop wasn't on the network. so we unplugged the keyplug and plugged in my USB data key - only to get the "not enough power..." message. but swapping back the AC WIBU everything was fine. this was an OSX 10.3.x machine, but with an old-style G4 graphite keyboard. i assumed it was just the age of the keyboard . . .

~/archiben

Re: ArchiCAD cannot find protection key? HELP...

Aussie John — Wed, 25 May 2005 22:57:23 GMT

I used to use the keyboard then started getting messages that there was not enough power so had to move it to my monitor USB port. I had used a different dongle ( was changed while I was in the main office) so maybe all dongles arent equal

Re: ArchiCAD cannot find protection key? HELP...

Anonymous — Thu, 26 May 2005 02:15:03 GMT

junior wrote:
Yes, I am running ArchiCAD 8.1 on a Mac OS X 10.2.8 and I can't seem to figure out why it is having problems finding the protection key..?! Any help on solving this problem will be much appreciated. Thanks!

Thanks for the help guys. I tried re-installing the wibu drivers but I still get the same results. Its on network and when I open AC on the Windows PC, it works great. When I try to open AC on the Mac, it displays a "protection key not found" message. Take note : for both cases ... the wibu key is plugged into the Mac.

Re: ArchiCAD cannot find protection key? HELP...

__archiben — Thu, 26 May 2005 03:51:39 GMT

junior wrote:
Thanks for the help guys. I tried re-installing the wibu drivers but I still get the same results. Its on network and when I open AC on the Windows PC, it works great. When I try to open AC on the Mac, it displays a "protection key not found" message. Take note : for both cases ... the wibu key is plugged into the Mac.

the mac is running the keyserver software but it can't find itself? or is it another mac that can't find the keyserver?

~/archiben

Re: ArchiCAD cannot find protection key? HELP...

Anonymous — Thu, 26 May 2005 04:14:27 GMT

Exactly, the mac is running the keyserver software but it can't find itself.

Re: ArchiCAD cannot find protection key? HELP...

Ben Odonnell — Thu, 26 May 2005 06:48:41 GMT

Try downloading the latest WIBU runtime kit.
NOTE! The latest runtime kit is NOT supported by Graphisoft, yet! I have done extensive testing with it and have found no major problems, but that was on my rig and own configuration.

Basically, with the newest runtime kit on the MAC, you have a GUI into the WIBUKEY.ini.
if you don't want take the risk with the new runtime kit,what you can do is to open up the WIBUKEY.ini manually in textedit and under the WKNet part,

find the row that has "Server1;! change the default ip to the ip of your machine. Save it close it down and then try it again.

HTH.
Cheers.
Ben

Re: ArchiCAD cannot find protection key? HELP...

Anonymous — Thu, 26 May 2005 08:23:33 GMT

Ben wrote:
Try downloading the latest WIBU runtime kit.
NOTE! The latest runtime kit is NOT supported by Graphisoft, yet! I have done extensive testing with it and have found no major problems, but that was on my rig and own configuration.

Basically, with the newest runtime kit on the MAC, you have a GUI into the WIBUKEY.ini.
if you don't want take the risk with the new runtime kit,what you can do is to open up the WIBUKEY.ini manually in textedit and under the WKNet part,

find the row that has "Server1;! change the default ip to the ip of your machine. Save it close it down and then try it again.

HTH.
Cheers.
Ben

Thanks Ben, I think your solution will work but I dont want to get my hopes up just yet. I located the WIBUKEY.ini thanks to the image that you uploaded in your previous post ... I have to apologize for my ignorance for I am only a novice when using the Mac and I do hope to improve in the Mac language ... Where exactly can I find the ip of my machine? Thanks again!

Re: ArchiCAD cannot find protection key? HELP...

Djordje — Thu, 26 May 2005 17:24:29 GMT

junior wrote:
Exactly, the mac is running the keyserver software but it can't find itself.

Did you try this:

http://archicad-talk.graphisoft.com/viewtopic.php?p=35085#35085

Re: ArchiCAD cannot find protection key? HELP...

Anonymous — Fri, 27 May 2005 06:49:31 GMT

Djordje wrote:
junior wrote:
Exactly, the mac is running the keyserver software but it can't find itself.
Did you try this:

http://archicad-talk.graphisoft.com/viewtopic.php?p=35085#35085

Thanks Djordje and Ben! I worked it out ... and the Mac now reads the key just like the other PC's. Great advice guys! I appreciate the support and help. Keep up the good work Graphisoft and AC users.