Computer Login Name for license center

The article explaining how to find my computer login name is disabled. Apparently because it's been 14 days or something. Can someone tell me how to either access the article or find the name?

[Spyridon Vossos]

I cannot find my computer' s login name

[Walter Roberson]

Spyridon Vossos: which operating system are you using? What happened when you followed the guidelines given by Pruthvi Muppavarapu ?

[Andrea Gollner]

Hi!

OS Windows 10;

set username yields 'username not defined'.

Alternative?

[Walter Roberson]

Andrea Gollner:

Please confirm that you are doing that at the Windows command prompt (not at the MATLAB command prompt.)

Some other approaches are listed at https://www.technipages.com/windows-10-find-who-is-logged-in and https://thegeekpage.com/know-your-computer-username-in-windows-10/

[Andrea Gollner]

Confirmed, opened cmd-shell.

Thanks for the link.

'whoami' was the right for me:-)

[John Thweatt]

Matlab has to be easier to install, they are terrible. More reason to use GNU DSP tools

[Diego Quan]

I dont understand how matlab is a profitable company with such bad code

[Walter Roberson]

@Diego Quan

Mathworks is using the same license server mechanism that is used by the majority of its competition.

The major competitor is perhaps Microsoft's license system. If you have ever done business licensing with Microsoft you might well find that Microsoft's license system is worse.

Answer 1

[Pruthvi Muppavarapu]

You can follow any of the three steps mentioned below which might help you find your login name,

1.To find your User Name, follow the instructions below for your operating system.

Windows

• The fastest way to get your User Name is from a Windows Command Prompt:
• Locate the search field. On Windows 7 this is in the Start Menu, on Windows 8/8.1 this is on the Start Screen, and on Windows 10 this is in the Taskbar
• Enter "cmd" into the search field and type enter

In the Command Prompt, enter the following command:

set username 

MacOS

To obtain your User Name, open a Terminal window:

• Open Finder
• Open the "Applications" folder
• Open the "Utilities" folder
• Start the "Terminal" application

In the Terminal window, enter the following command:

whoami 

Linux

To obtain your User Name, open Terminal and run the following command:

whoami 

2. The User Name can also be obtained by using the lmutil.exe utility included with the MATLAB installation. You can run the following commands in the cto determine the User Name needed for activation:

Windows:

"C:\Program Files\MATLAB\R20XXx\etc\winXX\lmutil.exe" lmhostid -user

The User Name will be displayed as “USER=<your_login_name>”

Mac:

/Applications/MATLAB_R20XXx.app/etc/maci64/lmutil lmhostid -user 

The User Name will be displayed as “USER=<your_login_name>”

Linux:

/usr/local/MATLAB/R2018b/etc/glnxa64/lmutil lmhostid -user 

The User Name will be displayed as “USER=<your_login_name>”

3. If access to the command window is not available, you can use the MATLAB activation client to determine what your Login Name is. To do this, you will need to first open the MATLAB activation client. The activation client can be found in the following locations:

Windows:

C:\Program Files\MATLAB\R20XXX\bin\win64\activate_matlab.exe. 

Mac:

Use Finder to go to /Applications . From there, control-click (right click) on the icon for your MATLAB version, such as MATLAB_R2015b.app . In the menu, choose "Show package contents". In that directory, you will find an Activate.app.

Linux:

/usr/local/MATLAB/R2018a/bin/activate_matlab.sh 

Once the activation client is open:

• Click on “Activate Manually without the Internet” and click next.
• Click on “I do not have a license file. Help me with the next steps”
• On this screen you will see your Login Name: “Computer Login Name:<your_login_name>”