Protect your security key from damage or loss

Olga Weis • Sep 13, 2023

Problem:

The focal point of this article is finding the best way to increase the USB dongles’ lifespan. Every user of a licensed software protected with a hardware dongle key will almost inevitably have to deal with the problem of breakage or loss of said key, which results in spending a small fortune on a replacement and wasted time waiting for it to be shipped.

Solution:

Fortunately, there is a very handy software tool named Donglify that is capable of protecting and extending the security keys lifespan.

Donglify is the ultimate software tool that makes your routine dongle-related experience as simple as possible yet fully comprehensive. Keep on reading for an easy-to-follow guide on sharing a USB key over the network that eliminates the need to replug it from one machine to another. Plus, you’ll find out more about some awesome benefits Donglify has to offer.

Extra perks that come with Donglify:

You’ll always know your dongle keys’ location.
Far less dongle unplugging and replugging.
Dongles are less likely to get stolen, lost, or broken.
Simultaneous dongle use for multiple users.
Easy remote access to a dongle from all over the network.
No need for any extra apps or gadgets.

Here are some real cases of Donglify improving our clients' situations.

Donglify helps users optimize and enhance the usage of security dongles. Most importantly, it saves your time and allows you to extend the lifespan of your dongle and save your money. Here are some reviews by our users sharing their thoughts:

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Rafael West

We purchased Donglify for our graphic designers so they both can access the one and only license dongle we have for the glass-printer’s software. In fact, that used to be a backup one before its predecessor literally fell to pieces due to heavy use. I mean, they used to physically reattach the poor thing from their colleague’s PC into their own every time they had a printing job. And that’s far more than a dozen times every single business day. Now, with Donglify, they don’t have to do that at all since whoever needs the printer can connect to the license key over the network. The printer’s software sees no difference at all. A great solution for a long-standing issue.

Rafael West
Jeff Redmond

I take pride in my work at I.T. support of a huge steelworks plant. With several thousand machines in my charge running on every platform possible and using loads of professional software, I was bound to deal with a minor, yet annoying problem. Dozens of license dongles that I had to carry around. Some of those are so tiny I’ve started to develop a phobic kind of thing about losing one of them from some magically appeared hole in my pocket. Replacement would’ve cost a tremendous amount of money.

That’s why I’ve been looking for a way to redirect all those dongles over the network so I could access them from any remote machine. After several days of thorough google searching and intense forum-reading, I’ve settled on Donglify. Unlike some other dongle sharing software, it works with pretty much, every dongle brand. Well, in all fairness, some of its advanced functionality, e.g. the multi-connect function, will only work for the top brands like Sentinel or HASP HL. Lucky for me, I hardly use those advanced functions in my day-to-day routine. What is essential, however, is that license keys don’t have to leave their safe harbor in my office and so the risk to lose or damage them is reduced to an absolute minimum.

Jeff Redmond
Murtaza Thompson

Our company’s order processing center had been using a popular phone manager software for a few years until someone in charge came up with an idea to upgrade the license to premium. So now we’ve got a whole bunch of new awesome functions that can’t be accessed without a USB key and only two of those keys.

Spending a few thousand on extra dongles for everyone was way beyond our budget. So we’ve just connected one of the keys to sysadmin’s machine (for it’s always up and running anyways) and used Donglify to share it through the corporate LAN. And it’s a SafeNet eToken 5110 so we’re free to use the app’s multi-connect function, meaning that any employee can access the key at all times no matter how many people are already connected to it. Another plus point of the app is a totally self-explanatory user interface so we could introduce it with no additional staff training.

Murtaza Thompson

Overall rating 4.5

based on 198 reviews

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As illustrated by the examples above, Donglify spares you from having to plug the USB key in and out all day long causing service wear, and stress over losing some pricey software license due to a missing USB key.