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Connecting to Vault 2021 from custom app hangs on "Validating user information"

Anonymous — Fri, 29 Jan 2021 15:36:55 GMT

I am using the Vault 2021 Prof. SDK connecting to a 2021 server. License manager is in the same server.

using VDF = Autodesk.DataManagement.Client.Framework; namespace MyTest { class Program { static void Main(string[] args) { var settings = new VDF.Vault.Forms.Settings.LoginSettings() { //ServerName = "192.168.1.6", //VaultName = "test" }; var conn = VDF.Vault.Forms.Library.Login(settings); } } }

Pretty straight forward code. However when the dialog pops up and I enter details and press OK, it just hangs on "Validating user information". I can cancel it, but I can't get in...

When using the client I can login, no problem. First time it asked for license. After that I can just autologin. But from my own app it's just stuck...

I'm using .NET Framework 4.7.1 and I compile for 64-bit.

Any advice?

Re: Connecting to Vault 2021 from custom app hangs on "Validating user information"

donalmcnamee — Mon, 01 Feb 2021 13:58:01 GMT

Are you connecting using Windows credentials (i.e. ActiveDirectory authentication)?

If so, your code should look something like this

Connection m_connection = null; WindowsIdentity identity = WindowsIdentity.GetCurrent(); string username = identity.Name; VDF.Vault.Results.LogInResult results = VDF.Vault.Library.ConnectionManager.LogIn("myServer", "myVault", null, null, AuthenticationFlags.WindowsAuthentication, null); if (results.Success) { m_connection = results.Connection; }

If you're using standard authentication (i.e. Vault username and password) it would look something like this:

Connection m_connection = null; VDF.Vault.Results.LogInResult results = VDF.Vault.Library.ConnectionManager.LogIn("myServer", "myVault", "myUsername", "myPassword", AuthenticationFlags.Standard, null); if (results.Success) { m_connection = results.Connection; }

Re: Connecting to Vault 2021 from custom app hangs on "Validating user information"

Anonymous — Tue, 02 Feb 2021 15:18:45 GMT

Thank you! Bypassing the login dialog using your second login method allowed to get exceptions back with error message that I could use to progress! In this case the issue was a missing DLL. I had had other issues as well related to DLL's but in the end I got it working! Thanks!! 🙂