hostid?

[Jaqui]

Lance wrote:
> Thanks all for the advice.. but I'm still not getting the hostid to which I
> refer. At work we use the Flexlm license manager. It requires users to send
> us the hostid of their computer. For example, the computer on which I write
> this has hostid 00d009b88fca and the hostname is the name of my computer
> which is MYNEWBOX.
> 
> I'd like somehow to get the above mentioned hostid. I believe that it's cpu
> specific.
> 
> Thanks.
> Lance
> 
> "Will Stuyvesant" <hwlgw at hotmail.com> wrote in message
> news:cb035744.0210191049.56dca2f8 at posting.google.com...
> 
>>[Lance]
>>
>>>I'd like to retrieve a computer's hostid. Does anyone know how to do
>>
> this?
> 
>>socket.gethostname()
>>
>>''Return a string containing the hostname of the machine where the
>>Python interpreter is currently executing. If you want to know the
>>current machine's IP address, you may want to use
>>gethostbyname(gethostname()). This operation assumes that there is a
>>valid address-to-host mapping for the host, and the assumption does
>>not always hold. Note: gethostname() doesn't always return the fully
>>qualified domain name; use gethostbyaddr(gethostname()) ''
>>
>>From the Reference Manual in your Python distro.
>>
>>Works like a charm on Windows; I have NT and XP.  Linux sometimes has
>>problems with that address-to-host mapping since linux is so hard to
>>configure.
>>
>>'''
>>The program said "Requires Windows 9x or better", so I installed
>>Linux.
>>'''
> 
> 
> 

the flexim host id is based on the hard drive id and cpu id,
easiest is to use the flexim gethostid utility to pull it up.
though that requires all systems running the app you are working on to 
have the flexim license manager/utility installed.

it is effectively a software dongle, forcing re-licensing at any 
hardware change.

this can be a put off to a lot of perspective clients.