Summary

This article discusses how to fix the dongle problem if you get the Error "wrong hostid on SERVER line for license file".

Synopsis

Error "wrong hostid on SERVER line for license file, hostid is (Can't get hostid of type 15 []) when locking to a dongle".

Discussion

When attempting to run a license server which is node-locked to a dongle hostid, the following error occurs:

14:03:48 (lmgrd)
14:03:48 (lmgrd) pid 5292
14:03:48 (lmgrd) Detecting other license server manager (lmgrd) processes...
14:03:48 (lmgrd) Done rereading
14:03:48 (lmgrd) FLEXnet Licensing (v11.7.0.0 build 73797 x64_n6) started on CHLTTODONOGHUE (IBM PC) (10/16/2009)
14:03:48 (lmgrd) Copyright (c) 1988-2009 Acresso Software Inc. All Rights Reserved.
14:03:48 (lmgrd) US Patents 5,390,297 and 5,671,412.
14:03:48 (lmgrd) World Wide Web: http://www.acresso.com
14:03:48 (lmgrd) License file(s): test.lic
14:03:48 (lmgrd) lmgrd tcp-port 27000
14:03:48 (lmgrd) Starting vendor daemons ...
14:03:48 (lmgrd) Started FSoftware (pid 6320)
14:03:48 (FSoftware) FLEXnet Licensing version v11.7.0.0 build 73797 x64_n6
14:03:49 (FSoftware) Server started on CHLTTODONOGHUE for: Dongle_test
14:03:49 (FSoftware) Wrong hostid on SERVER line for license file:
14:03:49 (FSoftware) test.lic
14:03:49 (FSoftware) SERVER line says FLEXID=9-4b3b42c5, hostid is (Can't get hostid of type 15 [])

The solution to this problem is to rebuild your SDK with the following command to enable dongle support

nmake DONGLE=1

With the newly created license server the license server will now start up without any problems.