[Macpartners] Unable to use Adobe Creative Cloud to download software.

[Thomas Brand]

May be. Out distribution method relies on the use of the free Adobe Creative Cloud trial. You think it would be funny that Adobe can not reliably offer the basis of their business model to a wider geographic of customers. 

Tom

On Feb 25, 2015, at 5:07 PM, Mark London <mrl at psfc.mit.edu> wrote:

> I suspect that MIT addresses get priority on the Adobe servers.   Or something!   There are other people on the web that complain about getting error messages when trying to connect to the servers. - Mark
> 
> On 2/25/2015 5:01 PM, Thomas Brand wrote:
>> Stange,
>> 
>> The is nothing about MIT’s license agreement with Adobe that prevents the downloading of Adobe applications from networks other than MITnet.
>> 
>> Thomas Brand
>> 
>> On Feb 25, 2015, at 4:52 PM, Mark London <mrl at psfc.mit.edu> wrote:
>> 
>>> I solved my problem.  I wasn't on the MIT network, so I connected to MIT
>>> using VPN, and I was then able to download an Adobe application using
>>> the Cloud.  Even more   Interesting, even after I disconnected from the
>>> VPN, I was still  able to download more applications, without a
>>> problem.   Go figure. :) - Mark
>>> 
>>> On 2/25/2015 3:18 PM, John Hawkinson wrote:
>>>> I gather this wasn't it? --jhawk
>>>> 
>>>> John Hawkinson <jhawk at MIT.EDU> wrote on Tue, 24 Feb 2015
>>>> at 12:32:04 -0500 in <20150224173204.GV59633 at mit.edu>:
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>>> Date: Tue, 24 Feb 2015 12:32:04 -0500
>>>>> From: John Hawkinson <jhawk at MIT.EDU>
>>>>> To: Mark London <mrl at psfc.mit.edu>
>>>>> CC: macpartners at mit.edu
>>>>> Subject: Re: [Macpartners] Unable to use Adobe Creative Cloud to download
>>>>>  software.
>>>>> Message-ID: <20150224173204.GV59633 at mit.edu>
>>>>> In-Reply-To: <54EB9DBA.4030903 at psfc.mit.edu>
>>>>> 
>>>>> Do you have any adobe.com entries in your /etc/hosts file?
>>>>> If so remove them and try again.
>>>>> 
>>>>> --jhawk
>>>>> 
>>>>> Mark London <mrl at psfc.mit.edu> wrote on Mon, 23 Feb 2015
>>>>> at 16:38:02 -0500 in <54EB9DBA.4030903 at psfc.mit.edu>:
>>>>> 
>>>>> 
>>>>>> Hi - I just received a new Imac running Yosemite.  I believed I
>>>>>> correctly followed MIT's instructions to install Adobe Creative Cloud,
>>>>>> but when I start it up, and select a software to download (using the Try
>>>>>> button), it either immediately tells me that it's unable to reach an
>>>>>> Adobe Server, or it attempts to do a download, and sometimes even starts
>>>>>> to download i
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