Solidworks does not work with the company's VPN

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Hi all

I will soon be partially telecommuting and the company uses a VPN to secure remote connections. Wishing to anticipate and prepare my installation at home, I am encountering major difficulties in using Solidworks with the VPN activated.

I easily managed to set up the VPN and connect to the company network. However, when I launch Solidworks, the application systematically crashes after a few minutes of use. I also tried to connect directly to the IP address of the license server, but without success! The problem persists even with the " Borrow a license " mode.

I've read stuff about choosing VPN protocols: what are they and which one is the most secure? and I've tested Openvpn, IPSec, and IKEv2, but none of them work. I tried changing the VPN settings to allow connections to the ports used by Solidworks, but it didn't fix the problem.

I find myself at an impasse and teleworking seems compromised for the moment.

Here are some questions I ask myself:

  • Is there a VPN protocol that works perfectly with Solidworks?
  • Is there a workaround I can use to get around this problem?
  • Is it possible that the problem is not with the VPN, but with Solidworks itself?

Thank you in advance for your help :pray:

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Hello
If you borrow a license, then you work locally. That is to say that ideally your file location settings should be redefined to your PC after having copied them of course (basemaps, weldments profiles, cfg, various tables, etc.). Be careful with the paths. So you will have to save a new settings file.
On the other hand, I don't have a solution for your VPN. For us it works, but a little slow and so we work locally on our PCs and then regularly transfer the projects in progress via the VPN.

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Hello.

Solidworks doesn't work with all VPNs, and even if it does, it becomes particularly slow.
You have not specified your version of Solidworks or the type of licenses (locales.onlines,seveur.)
The least worst, I think, to do in your case is to release your license from your desktop station, install Solidworks on your remote computer with this license, work locally, and then send the files back to your desktop via the VPN twice a day.
Of course, it all depends on your environment and way of working.

Kind regards.

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Good evening

Thank you for your answer, which is interesting, and I will study it more closely. Does it take a long time to copy the necessary files to your local computer?
For the VPN, I'm thinking of testing another one.
Thank you again for your answer