Hi Craig, I was just 'following' your thread on the activation without internet of monodroid, And what you descibe in your last message (below) rang a bell for me. From what I read in your last message I have concluded the following :
1. Your enterprise enviroment (computers) is a part of a Windows Domain with Windows Users. 2. When you disconnect the computers from the domain and try to write some 'critical' info (in this case the license file) the user logged on doesn't have sufficient privileges to actually make this alteration to the registry or specific directory. I have had the same kind of problems with a 'disconnected' domain computer while being logged on as a windows domain user (normal user). Based on this I did a first try by making the windows domain user part of the local computers administrator-group (or at least assign this user that role). However that didn't help me out at all, the results where still the same. Finally I managed to get full-access/rights on this disconnected computer by doing the following : Step 1. I log on to the computer as a domain administrator (with full rights). Step 2. I assigned this administrator user also local management rights (so added this administrator user also to the local computer administrator group) Step 3. While still being logged on to the domain i disconnected from the enterprise network (aka remove the network cable) and plugged the computer into a direct outside internet connection (in your case that 3G dongle) Step 4. Then i did my action that needed these elevated rights ! And NOW it worked. This has all to do with the way windows is dealing with the Group Policies and Local Policies if a computer is part of a windows domain. Please let me know if this kind of helped you. As a side note, the fact that the license failed after rebooting and/or restarting VS is related to the fact that once you are again on the domain with the machine, it will most likely take the 'roaming' profile from the domain server. Regards Danny PS) After activation, please without logging off, reconnect to the windows domain (aka switching the network connections back) and THEN log off, so the actual profile of the machine is also stored on the domain server, aswell as making a full backup of the license file (and / or the MonoDroid and MonoDevelop directories) (which is machine bound and the registry) this way if this registry and these directories get bumped/lost, you can just restore those files and settings. Van: Craig Dunn <craig.d...@conceptdevelopment.net> Beantwoorden - Aan: Discussions related to Mono for Android <monodroid@lists.ximian.com> Datum: Fri, 3 Jun 2011 10:32:18 +1000 Aan: Discussions related to Mono for Android <monodroid@lists.ximian.com> Onderwerp: Re: [mono-android] Activation without internet?? :'-( don't tell our infrastructure team, but i did just that on two PCs. disconnect corp.net <http://corp.net> and use a 3G USB hotspot. PC#1 - still doesn't Activate. Press "Activate" button - cursor spins - times out. No response/error message/log info. PC#2 - does Activate! Seems successful... until you restart VS and the 'activation' hasn't stuck - only works for that 'session'. License file-write must be failing?? #sadface On Fri, Jun 3, 2011 at 8:22 AM, Nagel, Ethan <ethan.na...@teamaol.com> wrote: > Hi, Craig, Ok desperate times call for desperate measures. Perhaps you could > get one of your work desktops on the real honest-to-God Internet for long > enough to activate? Perhaps using a 3G connection or something? That would > be the route I¹d investigate, since I don¹t think we can expect any help from > Attachmate at the moment. > > - Ethan > > > From: monodroid-boun...@lists.ximian.com > [mailto:monodroid-boun...@lists.ximian.com] On Behalf Of Craig Dunn > Sent: Wednesday, June 01, 2011 10:23 PM > To: Discussions related to Mono for Android > Subject: [mono-android] Activation without internet?? > > > HELP! > > I really *really* need to resolve my inability to 'activate' Mono-Android (if > at all possible, given the current state of things). I've just convinced this > company to continue using Mono-Android (despite everything) BUT I am still > bringing my personal laptop in every day to debug/deploy to devices... > > They got an enterprise license but the 'enterprise PCs' are behind an > authenticating-proxy & cannot Activate... the guys were looking/at debugging > this right up until they got the sack (I think) so it was never resolved. > > Has anyone come across a solution? The PCs are Windows 7 64-bit... but then so > is my home PC and monodroid is installed/activated there without a problem. > > Is there a disconnected way to activate? > > </last-ditch-effort> > > TIA > Craig > > _______________________________________________ > Monodroid mailing list > Monodroid@lists.ximian.com > > UNSUBSCRIBE INFORMATION: > http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/monodroid > _______________________________________________ Monodroid mailing list Monodroid@lists.ximian.com UNSUBSCRIBE INFORMATION: http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/monodroid
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