On a OSX machine, went smoothly. And now?
Is there any first steps guide which helps with
setting up a scene, or providing an example scene -
anything which helps things get going? Thanks in advance.
I will create a small demo scene later today to get you started.
Thanks, I am trying to get this license server thingie going,
seems very complicated. So take your time 
I’ll correct myself,
this is very very complicated,
what exactly do I have to do,
if I want to connect to the license server?
I’m lost here…
hi derya,
try to install the licensefile with the webinterface of FLEXnet License Administrator:
forums.autodesk.com/t5/Installat … -p/3204280
i have the same problem ( windows) to get the license run. i will try it again later.
Thanks mate, but there is nothing under localhost:8080.
I’m on a mac, does this make things difficult?
If this is the way to run Krakatoa under
C4D, only windows administrators will be your target group 
I’m also still fighting to get the licence Manager running on my OSX Machine. Seems to be quite tricky and let you know if I figured it out….
You need to have the right port open so that the license manager can communicate with the server. I did it recently for RealFlow and it’s not complicated but I can’t remember how I did it (the RF guy talked me through it)! I’ll try and figure it out and post on here.
Thanks Weezer, but I don’t understand
why the guys here don’t give us a simple walkthrough.
Why do you have to refer to a RealFlow guy?
I have a node locked license but i also have no idea where to put th elicense file to make it work. Any hints? I’m sitting on a mac right now.
Thanks
Simon
We’ll put together a licensing tutorial for you shortly. this is the first release of the beta, so please be gentle 
cb
Thanks! This will help us i think
Yup! It’s all on me.
We have this guy, which explains how to install the license server and get it running:
thinkboxsoftware.com/license … figuration
And I’ve been dabbling on and off with getting a plist for Launchd set to get the Mac to start it up on reboot. The code for that is on GitHub here:
github.com/ThinkboxSoftware/Dea … /Licensing
Give me lots of feedback on the plist thing. I want to make sure it’s as good as possible before I fold the documentation there into our licensing page.
I just noticed a little mistake in the plist versus the licensing docs. Updating now…
Edit: Done updating now. Have at it.
Halelujah, I just managed to get it running.
I hope this process will be streamlined in the future,
pasting some code into terminal makes me really uncomfortable
Hi Derya, what did you do to make it running? I just don’t know what I do wrong…
and yes I’m on OSX
I followed the readme file provided with the license server package,
but my hostid was wrong, so Radka from the support team corrected it
in my license file. I’m sure licensing like this is no prob for TD’s, but
for the usual c4d user it’s really complicated.
Content of the readme file:
About:
This is a handy plist for the Darwin/OS X Launch Daemon. It should start lmgrd
for you on reboot and keep it alive if it dies. You should make sure lmgrd can
run on its own with the right license file first before setting this up.
Install:
Installation is straightforward, but there are a few steps.
Create a folder for the licensing binaries. We expect it to be
“/usr/local/Thinkbox/lmgrd”. Create folders as necessary with
mkdir -p /usr/local/Thinkbox/lmgrd in a Terminal window or manually from the
finder.
Create a folder with license file at:
“/usr/local/flexlm/licenses/license.dat”
If you create those folders, put your license file in place as
“license.dat” in there.
Now that that’s done, copy all of the licensing binaries from either the
download section of the website, or from the Deadline Repository if you have
one. You’ll need to put them into the local folder “/usr/local/Thinkbox/lmgrd”,
and set the permissions so that the ‘daemon’ user can access it. It’s likely
good by default.
Now, copy the “com.thinkbox.license.plist” file into “/Library/LaunchDaemons”
and install it with the following command, again in a Terminal window:
launchctl load -w /Library/LaunchDaemons/com.thinkbox.license.plist
And that should be it for installing! If something goes wrong running it,
launchd should have written helpful output in
“/usr/local/Thinkbox/lmgrd/Thinkbox.log”. Keep reading for important infos.
Summary of steps as a script:
mkdir -p /usr/local/Thinkbox/lmgrd
cd /usr/local/Thinkbox/lmgrd/
cp $license_bin_dir/* .
chown -R nobody:nogroup . # Make sure you’re in the right directory!
chmod -R 755 * # Ditto for this one
cp com.thinkbox.license.plist /Library/LaunchDaemons/com.thinkbox.license.plist
launchctl load -w /Library/LaunchDaemons/com.thinkbox.license.plist
Assumptions:
We’re making the following assumptions with this setup:
1) The license tools were copied to /usr/local/Thinkbox/lmgrd/
2) Everything in there is readable by the ‘daemon’ and ‘nogroup’ user&group.
3) Your license file is in the folder and is named ‘Thinkbox_license.lic’
Now, if anything there isn’t true, feel free to edit the plist to reflect
reality. Our support staff are going to assume that you have things configured
as above.
Usage of launchctl:
Unloading the license service (stop it from running):
launchctl unload -w /Library/LaunchDaemons/com.thinkbox.license.plist
Re-load it:
launchctl load -w /Library/LaunchDaemons/com.thinkbox.license.plist
Help:
The Launch daemon writes errors to /var/log/system.log with a prefix of
“com.apple.launchd[1]”. Usually, if you it’s not working, make sure that
the license file exists and reflects your machine. Usually it’s helpful to try
and run lmgrd first to see that the license file works, and then move on to
this.
If you hit any snags using this, as usual, e-mail support@thinkboxsoftware.com
Or post in the license thread so this helpful infos don’t get lost
viewtopic.php?f=197&t=10997
We’re here to help. Just let us know where you get stuck and we’ll lend a hand. I’m basically camping in here all day.
I just posted a short version in this thread:
viewtopic.php?f=197&t=10997
hi all,
can anyone explaines the installation routine for the lic. file and the server on win 8 ?
got every time an error in c4d.