Ford IDS can't connect to licensing server and Flexnet update client error
Hello to all,
I am having trouble with Ford IDS that I have installed on a Panasonic Toughbook CF19 Windows 7 Pro. As far as I know the PC meets all the specs and it is fully up to date. I had this problem from the start. After installing IDS it could not contact the licensing server to install the license on IDS so I had to do an offline response code to install the license. I have made sure it is allowed through the firewall of the computer. There are no 3rd party antivirus/firewall programs on the computer other than the default Windows Defender. The software update application also does not open correctly. As you can see in the attached picture it simply brings up an error message. I performed IDS network test that shows it cannot connect to the licensing server. I am running the current version 114.01 of IDS. I have tried uninstalling IDS and running the IDS cleanup utility and have reinstalled IDS with no change. I have verified that it works on my shop network with another computer so I have ruled out a network/server issue on my end. It appears to me that something is not working correctly in th e Toughbook. IDS has worked well on this computer before the validation was required. I did have FDRS installed previously and at that time the update application that was installed with FDRS was operating correctly and giving updates for both FDRS and IDS. I thought just maybe FDRS is causing confusion so I uninstalled that with no change in operation. I do not have any other diagnostic software installed on this operating system other than Pico Oscilloscope software. Any thoughts or pointers would be appreciated.
Regards
Update client error after trying to open update client
Validation error because it cannot connect to the licensing server
A friend and fellow DN member, Craig Copelan, stated something about the latest IDS release being unstable. When he spoke with support, they recommended going back to the previous release. I'm not sure if this is related or not.
If you have IDS version 114.01 it may be an issue with the build. They launched it and it's crap. We have had network issues, programming issues, wireless VCMII issues. You name it we have had them. I'm hoping for a patch soon. I am rolling back to 113 tomorrow if no patch is out.
I have been having this issue before updating to 114.01. I have never had any trouble programming with it so far.
I use 114..01 so far so good. Yesterday late afternoon the ford servers were down. They were back up around 6:00 pm EST
I had downloaded and installed the 114.01 but hadn't used it since updating , I tried yesterday and got some sorta network communication error
I have experience issues with blank PCM programming without the originals this week with 114.01 I have since uninstalled and rolled back to 113.01 and have had better luck.
The installation of 114.01 was problematic for me. It crashed part-way through requiring a complete uninstallation, a reboot, a cleanIDS, a re-boot and finally a re-installation and licensing. It succeeded registering my license so I went to work. I found the diagnostics worked correctly but I had problems programming with 114.02 (didn't even try with 114.01). Even using engineering modes I…
I have been having continuous issues with 114.01 and 114.02. I have rolled back to 113.06 and have not had issues. 113 still works for now.
Spoke with another user today who cannot program with 114.03. Also saw some folks using J-Tools are affected as well. ( C'mon Ford! Ridiculous! )
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Hello to all, I have not done much programming yet with currrent version but have had no problem scanning. As far as the licensing server connectivity ... it turned out to be an issue with my internet server. It was being blocked so after contacting my IT manager we got it cleared up with some changes on his end and now I have licensing server communication.