WIDEFS KEY NOT VALID

[dwhitley]

I have purchased and downloaded widefs from sim market. I got the key immediately. I also upgraded FSUIPC from 3.70 to 3.75 whis was already registered.

However, when I try and register the widefs, I get (Sorry, this is not a vaild 12-Character Key)

Am I missing a step somewhere?

Thanks,

Dennis

[Pete Dowson]

I have purchased and downloaded widefs from sim market. I got the key immediately. I also upgraded FSUIPC from 3.70 to 3.75 whis was already registered.

However, when I try and register the widefs, I get (Sorry, this is not a vaild 12-Character Key)

Am I missing a step somewhere?

There are no other steps. Are you by any chance pressing the button for FSUIPC registration by mistake, instead of the WideFS one?

Otherwise the most likely problem is that you are making an error in one of the fields. the name, email and key must ALL be exactly as provided in the notification. Use cut-and-paste to be sure. It is easy to mistake O's and 0's and so on, and there have been many cases of folks not even spelling their name exactly the same!

Regards

Pete

[dwhitley]

The FSUIPC is already registeredd, and, greyed out.

After I could not enter the key, I did the upghrade from 3.7 to 3.75. The upgrade from 3.7 to 3.75 was no issue, and did not require that I renter the key again.

I did copy and paste the WIDEFS as well as tried enerting the key manually. Still get a (Sorry, this is not a vaild 12-Character Key) The order came from SimMarket shortly after purchase. I thought that it may have to get put into the system or something of that nature.

Thanks

D

[dwhitley]

Follow up---

I did notice something. The key delivered was sent to a different email address that is posted in the current FSUIPC. Would that make any difference? Seems like I saw that mentioned somewhere.

The user name is identical, but the email address is different.

D

[Pete Dowson]

I did notice something. The key delivered was sent to a different email address that is posted in the current FSUIPC. Would that make any difference? Seems like I saw that mentioned somewhere.

Yes, in the documentation in FSUIPC where it explains about registration.

The user name is identical, but the email address is different.

The name and email address has to be the same for both FSUIPC and WideFS. They are your identity as far as the Registration component is concerned.

If you ZIP up your FSUIPC.KEY file (from the FS Modules folder) and send it to me along with your WideFS registration receipt and details from SimMarket, to petedowson@btconnect.com, I will replace one of your two keys with a matching one for the other. Decide which email you want to use and let me know.

I'm afraid that if this doesn't arrive soon (i.e. before 1800 GMT today, Monday) , I won't be able to deal with it until I return on the 13th. If you miss me and want to sort it out before then you'll need to raise a problem ticket with SimMarket and see if they can handle it.

Regards

Pete

[dwhitley]

Thanks Peter,

I wrote the SimMarket guys in the meantime, and they emailed me another key under the original email address, I put that key in and it took it okay.

However, I can't get a connection across the network. It is a simple linksys router between three computers, but the client machine gives a "Waiting for connection" message and the FS machine give a "waiting for client" message. I have good connectivity between the three machines, as I have several mapped drives and shared folders that I use a lot. I checked the exception tables in the firewalls, and all widefs all settings appear authorized.

I'll paste the logs and INI Files below.

Client Log:

********* WideClient Log [version 6.75] Class=FS98MAIN *********

Date (dmy): 05/11/07, Time 11:39:37.265: Client name is EZNEWS12

188 Attempting to connect now

1188 Trying to locate server: Need details from Server Broadcast

1188 Failed to connect: waiting to try again

3188 Attempting to connect now

67188 Trying to locate server: Need details from Server Broadcast

Client INI:

; PLEASE SEE WideFS documentation for parameter details

; =====================================================

[Config]

Port=8002

Window=43,44,886,589

Visible=Yes

ButtonScanInterval=20

ClassInstance=0

NetworkTiming=5,1

MailslotTiming=2000,1000

PollInterval=2000

Port2=9002

ResponseTime=18

ApplicationDelay=0

TCPcoalesce=No

WaitForNewData=500

MaxSendQ=100

OnMaxSendQ=Log

NewSendScanTime=50

Priority=3,1,2

; -----------------------------------------------

[user]

Log=Errors+

; ===============================================

Server Log:

********* WideServer.DLL Log [version 6.75] *********

Blocksize guide = 4096 (double allowed)

Date (dmy): 05/11/07, Time 11:12:24.625: Server name is DENNIS

53641 Initialising TCP/IP server

53641 Initialising IPX/SPX server

53641 IPX/SPX socket() failed [Error=10047] Address family not supported by protocol family

53656 Failed to start IPX/SPX Server

53656 Initialising UDP/IP server

54328 Broadcasting service every 1000 mSecs

65000 Restarting service due to total lack of use

65016 Failed to start IPX/SPX Server

1823797 Closing down now ...

Memory managed: Offset records: 0 alloc, 0 free

Read buffer usage: 0 alloc, 0 free, max in session: 0

Write buffer usage: 0 alloc, 0 free, max in session: 0

Throughput maximum achieved: 0 frames/sec, 0 bytes/sec

Throughput average achieved for complete session: 0 frames/sec, 0 bytes/sec

********* Log file closed *********

********* WideServer.DLL Log [version 6.75] *********

Blocksize guide = 4096 (double allowed)

Date (dmy): 05/11/07, Time 11:07:41.546: Server name is DENNIS

51578 Initialising TCP/IP server

51593 Initialising IPX/SPX server

51593 IPX/SPX socket() failed [Error=10047] Address family not supported by protocol family

51593 Failed to start IPX/SPX Server

51593 Initialising UDP/IP server

52265 Broadcasting service every 1000 mSecs

62843 Restarting service due to total lack of use

62859 Failed to start IPX/SPX Server

259781 Closing down now ...

Memory managed: Offset records: 0 alloc, 0 free

Read buffer usage: 0 alloc, 0 free, max in session: 0

Write buffer usage: 0 alloc, 0 free, max in session: 0

Throughput maximum achieved: 0 frames/sec, 0 bytes/sec

Throughput average achieved for complete session: 0 frames/sec, 0 bytes/sec

********* Log file closed *********

Server INI:

; PLEASE SEE the documentation for parameter details

; ==================================================

[Config]

Port=8002

AdvertiseService=1

AutoRestart=0

AutoUpdateTime=13

MaximumBlock=4096

NoStoppedRestarts=Yes

Port2=9002

RestartTime=10

SendTimeout=15

TCPcoalesce=No

; -----------------------------------------------

[user]

Log=Errors+

; ===============================================

[Pete Dowson]

However, I can't get a connection across the network.

Your Client log shows the client is simply waiting to receive a broadcast from the Server so that it knows who it is and what protocol to use.

Are all PCs running WinXP? If the clients aren't running WinXP you'll need to provide the ServerName and Protocol parameters in the WideClient.INI files. This is documented. The automatic connection makes use of Broadcasting from the Server, and I don't think older versions of Windows handle that.

The other thing to check is that all the PCs are in the same workgroup. Broadcasts don't work between different workgroups.

Regards

Pete

[dwhitley]

It's XP.....Howerver, You are genius...but you knew that...

It was the workgroup. A relatively new computer I never identified. All is well.

I am about to see if my Jepp Sim Charts will now work across the Network. I've never seen anything from Jep about it, but I would think that their "Sim Track" should work if it thinks FS is running somewhere.

Thank you so much for the help.

D

Dennis H. Whitley

VATUSA 1

VATUSA Division Director