I played with QODBC v7 on my development machine. I also read that when I buy OEM pack of licenses I get a set of CD Keys for each of the license.

Yesterday I bought a developer license of v8 along with 15 OEM drivers pack. With v8 it works different way. I got just 1 CD Key for all licenses I bought.

My question: How do I control how many licenses in use? For instance I want one of my client to install QODBC v8 on 3 machines in his company. How do I prevent installation on 10 machines? CD Key is the same now, then I cannot stop the person I gave that key to install QODBC on as many machines as he wants.

Or another scenario: The person I gave an authorisation to install the driver on 3 machines, decided to replace one of his workstations with the new one and forgets to deactivate the driver on the old machine. I even will not know that the number of unused licenses I have decreased.

Any explanation please.

Thank you

Vlad

LPSTR INTFUNC FQActivate(LPSTR sCDKeyEntered)

That will let you register a machine (requires Internet connection) without the user ever knowing the CD Key. Just check the return string for any error messages. The QODBC installer calls this function during normal installation.

OEM seats are priced low as they are expected to be deployed as one seat for each computer period.

Thank you Tom.

"You should have received two CD Keys, as they are two seperate products. The OEM bundle has a single CD Key with 15 activation seats."

Yes, I've got 2 of them.

"Most developers activate their depolyment sites directly over the phone with the user or after installation they use this function to auto activate a CD Key in fqqb32.dll :

LPSTR INTFUNC FQActivate(LPSTR sCDKeyEntered)"

How do I run this stuff? More details please

"That will let you register a machine (requires Internet connection) without the user ever knowing the CD Key"

I would love not to give CD Key to the user.

"OEM seats are priced low as they are expected to be deployed as one seat for each computer period."

The salesperson I was buying the product assured me that OEM licenses are transferrable, i.e. if by some reason user wants to move his OEM license from one machine to another one there is no problem.

Thank you

Vlad

Direct call from where? do I have to write some program in VB (I am VB developer) and call the function? Or I have to run from DOS prompt?

Is there any documentation explayning how it can be done?

Thank you