Article - CS119513

How to access Flexnet based PTC products via VPN

Modified: 30-Jun-2025   


Applies To

  • Creo Parametric 2.0 to 12.4
  • Pro/ENGINEER and Creo Elements/Pro Wildfire to Wildfire 5.0
  • Mathcad 14.0 to 15.0
  • Mathcad Prime 1.0 to 11.0
  • Creo Illustrate 1.0 to 11.1
  • PTC Arbortext Editor 6.0 to 8.3
  • Arbortext IsoDraw CADprocess 7.0 to 7.3
  • Creo View 1.0 to 8.1

Description

  • How to access Flexnet based products via VPN
  • Error -96, Cannot connect to license server occurs while launching Flexnet based applications on client machines through VPN
  • Error -15, Cannot connect to license server system occurs while launching Flexnet based application on client machine through VPN
  • License server status shown as Unreachable on client machine while accessing server through VPN
  • Creo running slow when connected over VPN to license server
  • Delay between every command or click with the program freezing in between
  • Unable to assess Mold Design module after connecting VPN and it works in the office without VPN 
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