Remote Desktop Access

A non-network license of FRED can be operated via Remote Desktop, as long as the dongle is located on the PC which will be running FRED. The default installation of the software and key driver is required on the host machine.

Additionally, for older superpro dongles, before the dongle will allow you to start a new instance of FRED on the remote machine you will need to make some modifications to how the host computer searches for the dongle.  Please take the following actions:

1. Install the Safe-Net Sentinel services on the machine being used to run FRED.  In the FRED installation directory you will see a Utilities folder which contains the Sentinel Protection Installer.  Unplug your hardware dongle and run this installer.
   1. If the computer does not have the Sentinel key software installed, then accept the license agreement and proceed with a CUSTOM install when prompted.  In the custom setup step, select each component (Sentinel System Drivers, Sentinel Protection Server, Sentinel Keys Server and Sentinel Security Runtime) and choose, “This feature, and all subfeatures, will be installed on the local hard drive”.  There should be no components with an X symbol present.  Hit Next and complete the installation.  This process may require you to reboot your computer.
   2. If the computer already has the Sentinel key software installed, select the MODIFY option after running the installer.  In the custom setup step, select each component (Sentinel System Drivers, Sentinel Protection Server, Sentinel Keys Server and Sentinel Security Runtime) and choose, “This feature, and all subfeatures, will be installed on the local hard drive”.  There should be no components with an X symbol present.  Hit Next and complete the installation.  This process may require you to reboot your computer.
2. After restarting the computer, setup a new system environment variable having name = NSP_HOST and value = RNBO_SPN_LOCAL.  Environment variables are accessed through the System dialog found on the Control Panel.
3. Start FRED locally on the machine to verify that the key is properly detected and that you can run FRED without going over the network.
4. If (3) is successful, close FRED and logout of the machine.
5. On another computer, remote desktop into the machine you just setup and try to start FRED.