Issues with "identical" clients

The Xibo .net client uses the type of CPU you have, and your C: drive's volume serial number to generate a unique key for each client machine.

From version 1.0.5, you can edit the key generated directly in the client options so this procedure should now be redundant.

If you have multiple machines which are identical - eg same processor and are imaged with the same Windows install (and you've not rolled that image to the clients with Sysprep as is recommended by Microsoft), then the client may generate the same ID as another client.

To avoid this, the volume serial number must be changed on each of the identical clients using the volumeid tool from SysInternals. It can be downloaded here:
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/bb897436.aspx

Download the zip file and extract volumeid.exe to the root of your c:\ drive

Then do the following:
* Start -> Run -> cmd -> OK
* cd\
* dir c:
* Note the volume serial number shown at the top of the listing
* volumeid c: xxxx-xxxx
  Replace the xxxx-xxxx with a new serial number in hex. I just added one to one of the numbers in the serial.
* Reboot

The client should now register with a unique key.