Summary

Title:Authorizer mismatch error (Licensing)
Category:Crash/Critical
Status:Open
Posted By:Bloom Film Design ( Joaquim Montserrat )
Date Created:19 July 2022

Problem

Description:

Hello,

We recently started having problems with our license. This error shows up when we use Ornatrix for 3ds Max (both 2022 and 2023):

 

Authorizer mismatch error
All your licenses are assigned to other computers

 

In the Ephere License Server Manager, we can see that the licenses are not in use (see the screenshot) and not being used by other computers.

What we've done so far:

  • Uninstalled the license server using the steps described here (with prior unassignment of the licenses)
  • changed the license server to another computer
  • Releasing / reassigning licenses
  • Changed server address to IP / Name
  • reverting to older versions of Ornatrix
  • Same error in Max 2022 and Max 2023
  • Shuting down all instances of 3ds Max, restarting the computer that used Ornatrix previously.

Note: the server that is hosting the license server has had 2 HDD failure recently (RAID), but the main OS HDD wasn't changed. No other hardware changes.

Note: Our firewall doesn't block access to ephere.com

What can we do? We are on a tight deadline and would appreciate if this problem could be solved quickly. Thank you for your support.

Jo.

 

 

Steps to Reproduce:
 

Attached Files:

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If I install the License Server on my local machine, and point to "localhost", I get a slightly different message:

 

"Authorizer mismatch error"

"This computer has a previously assigned license"

Please try installing the latest nightly build, 7.3.8.30966

If it doesn't work, please look for the following files:

"%LOCALAPPDATA%\EphereLicensingLog.txt" (or "C:\Users\\AppData\Local\EphereLicensingLog.txt")

C:\ProgramData\Ephere\EphereLicensingLog.txt

C:\Windows\System32\config\systemprofile\AppData\Local\EphereLicensingLog.txt (this one might require administrator access to the directories above it)

and send them by e-mail to ivan.kolev at ephere com

 

Ivan Kolev (Software Developer, EPHERE Inc.)

E-mail: ivan.kolev at ephere dot com

Discord: ikolev

Thanks, I'm sending the file over to you

Hi, I installed the latest nightly build, i still have an error, but different words:

Authorization failed

This computer has a previously assigned license

 

Note: I have now moved the license server to my localhost computer (windows 10).

For the record, it turned out that our license server doesn't work when Windows has this group policy enabled:

"System cryptography: Use FIPS-compliant algorithms for encryption, hashing, and signing"

We'll look into ways to work around this.

 

Ivan Kolev (Software Developer, EPHERE Inc.)

E-mail: ivan.kolev at ephere dot com

Discord: ikolev