Matlab Installation from FTP server

[paritosh.h.gupta]

How do we activate the Matlab Software provided in the FTP server by IIT? It doesn't accept the code provided there as the licence key, as it doesn't accept letters as characters.

[Akhil Surya Vamshi Madupu]

There is a *.lic file. That's the one to use. Not the key file.

Akhil Surya Vamshi

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From: paritosh.h.gupta
Sent: ‎13-‎08-‎2015 11:18
To: Web and Coding Club IIT Bombay
Subject: [WnCC] Matlab Installation from FTP server

How do we activate the Matlab Software provided in the FTP server by IIT? It doesn't accept the code provided there as the licence key, as it doesn't accept letters as characters.

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[Paritosh Gupta]

Hi!

Could you please tell me where the *.lic file is located? I'm not able to find it.

Thanks!

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Paritosh Harish Gupta,

B.Tech. Mechanical Engineering

Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay, 2016

paritosh...@gmail.com | http://homepages.iitb.ac.in/~120100017/

[Dilawar Singh]

Till you get your problem sorted out, you can play with octave which has syntax
similar to matlab and freely available. You can later execute the same code on
Matlab. But octave support for toolboxes is rather limited so its not going to
help much for very specific toolbox related stuff.

best,
Dilawar

On Fri, Aug 28, 2015 at 01:26:24PM +0530, Paritosh Gupta wrote:
>Hi!
>Could you please tell me where the *.lic file is located? I'm not able to
>find it.
>Thanks!
>
>On Thu, Aug 13, 2015 at 11:50 AM, Akhil Surya Vamshi Madupu <
>akhil...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> There is a *.lic file. That's the one to use. Not the key file.
>>
>> Akhil Surya Vamshi

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>> From: paritosh.h.gupta <paritosh...@gmail.com>

>> Sent: ‎13-‎08-‎2015 11:18

>> To: Web and Coding Club IIT Bombay <wncc...@googlegroups.com>

[Sneha Goenka]

Your could look into C:\ProgramFIles\Matlab\Licenses folder.

Sneha D. Goenka

Junior Undergrduate

Electrical Engineering

Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay

Contact: +91 7045330930

Email: goenk...@iitb.ac.in, goe...@cooper.edu

[Rohan Kumar]

I think you might be installing R2015A version for which the lic file is not available. You can install the R2014B version from here http://www.cc.iitb.ac.in/engservices/engftpserver/37-ftp-server . There is Readme file containing all the information you might need.

Rohan Kumar

Second Year Undergraduate

Chemical Engineering 

Indian Institute of Technology Bombay

[Rohan Kumar]

I am not exactly sure about the R2015A license file. It might be present inside the ISO file. Do check it once!

[Paritosh Gupta]

The License file isn't there inside the ISO unfortunately. I installed R2014B. Now there's a different problem. MATLAB opens only while connected to iitb server(through VPN or by being inside IIT). I can't use it at home. Is there any way around this?

[Rohan Kumar]

As far as I know. no. In linux it needs to be connected to internal IITB servers. In windows I think it works fine even without any connection.

Anybody else?

[Ishan Rakshit]

Yes, works fine for Windows. 

Ishan Rakshit

Senior Undergraduate
Department of Aerospace Engineering

Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay

Mobile: +91 916 746 8001

Email:   ishanr...@iitb.ac.in

[Siddharth Babbar]

I've been using it for quite sometime... 

As far as I understand, the license file connects it to matlab.iitb.ac.in which is not accesible outside insti network. But there is a workaround, you need the server only when it starts. After Matlab is up and running, it does not check for the license file and u can use it as and when u want. This was for 2014a. For 2014b, it does check while running and give a warning similar to "unable to connect, will shutdown after 9 more commands". No workaround I could find, VPN is the best option I guess...

On Sun, Aug 30, 2015 at 1:44 PM, Rohan Kumar <k.roh...@gmail.com> wrote:

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Regards,
Siddharth Babbar

Senior Undergraduate

Department of Energy Science and Engineering

Institute Film and Media Secretary, 2014-15

IIT Bombay

08452914600

[Paritosh Gupta]

I'm working on 2014b, and you're right; That's exactly what happens. I guess I'll be using VPN then :/. So I can't work with MATLAB if there is no Internet Connection around?

[Rohan Kumar]

Yep. 

[Siddharth Babbar]

​I keep 2 versions of MATALB, one licensed 2014b to use in insti and a cracked 2009b (smalller size) ​for emergencies... numbers of which have risen a lot during the past months due to the condition of internet in insti :P