Structural Material Manager makes use of software known as "lock drivers." The drivers are comprised of software that coordinates the interaction between Structural Material Manager's security lock and the Windows operating system.
A common misconception is that a lock driver is a hardware device. For instance, customers will sometimes mention that "the lock driver has been installed on the back of the computer." Actually, the lock is the physical security device, i.e., hardware, whereas the lock driver is the software that provides Windows operating system support for the lock.
There are several styles of security locks, and they are differentiated by their color and the type of port to which they attach. USB locks are either completely purple or they are mainly black with purple accent stripes. Parallel-port locks are either off-white or black.
If you have a black parallel-port lock, and Structural Material Manager is not recognizing the presence of the lock, the latest drivers should be downloaded from this Web site using the the directions in this document. If your lock is any type of USB unit or a white parallel-port lock, please click the "Structural Material Manager Software Downloads page" link at the bottom of this page, and look for information on that type of lock.
Once you have verified that your lock is indeed the black, parallel-port type, it is time to download and run the HLDRV32.Exe file as follows:
A) You can download HLDRV32.Exe either from our FTP (File Transfer Protocol) server or our HTTP (HyperText Transfer Protocol) server. If your particular system has trouble obtaining the file from one server, simply try the other. Click on the link of your choice below:
B) Clicking the desired link above should have caused the "Save As" dialog to open. However, it is possible that rather than opening the Save As dialog, your browser instead asked whether you want to run the file or save it to disk. If this sort of question appears, choose to save the file to disk. Upon choosing this option, the desired Save As dialog should appear.
C) We'll assume that you now have the Save As dialog open. Before actually saving the file, pay careful attention to the following:
After noting the above items, and changing them if desired, click or press whatever button (usually "Save") your browser requires to begin saving the file.
D) Once the download is complete, close the Save As dialog (if it did not close automatically), and exit the browser. The Internet phase of the process is now complete.
Once you have successfully downloaded the file, the lock drivers can be installed as follows:
A) Under Windows 95, 98 and Millennium Edition, the drivers can be installed without the user having any special access rights. Under Windows NT 4.0, 2000, XP, Vista, and 7, however, installation of any driver requires administrative privileges from a network security standpoint. So, please make sure that you have administrative privileges before proceeding if you are using Windows NT 4.0, 2000, XP, Vista or 7.
B) If you saved the file to the Windows Desktop, simply find the HLDRV32 icon there, and double-click it. If you saved HLDRV32.Exe to some other location, you'll of course have to first browse to that location before double-clicking the HLDRV32 icon.
C) After the lock driver setup program's opening screen appears, simply click the Next button as necessary to move through the screen(s).
E) The setup program will report the status of the installation when it is done. Simply click the Finish button at this screen in order to close the setup utility.
D) After the updated drivers have been installed, run Structural Material Manager. If you can successfully open a job by clicking File | Open, the lock is being properly detected.
Let's close this section by presenting some information concerning the need of lock drivers on networked machines. In a network environment in which Structural Material Manager is loaded on a server, the server itself only needs lock drivers installed if someone is actually going to run Structural Material Manager at that station. If the machine is simply acting as a the central point from which other network PC's access Structural Material Manager, and no user will actually sit at the server and run the software, then there is no need to load lock drivers on that machine. The basic rule-of-thumb is simple: if you physically installed a lock on the machine, load the drivers; if no lock will be attached to this computer, skip the lock driver installation.
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