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Maya Licensing
The Quick Start licensing guides in this book (
Stand-Alone Licensing on page 55 and Network
Licensing
on page 73) are intended to describe the licensing procedures for all Autodesk
products. This chapter provides supplemental Maya-specific information.
In particular, note that license borrowing and the Network License Activation Utility as
described for other Autodesk products are not supported the same way for Maya. Refer to the
following topics for information on Maya network licensing and borrowing licenses.
License Borrowing
If you are using a network-licensed version of Maya and your network
administrator supports the license borrowing feature, you can borrow a product
license from your network license server to use the program when your computer
is not connected to the network.
IMPORTANT Unlike some other Autodesk products, license borrowing in Maya is
not supported through the Borrow License button in the Product License Information
dialog box. See Borrow a Maya License on page 48 for more information.
Your borrowed license is automatically returned to the license server at the end
of the day on the return date you set when you borrowed the license. You can
also return a license early.
NOTE There is a limit to the number of licenses available for borrowing. If you try
to borrow a license and are notified that no licenses are available, all network licenses
may already be borrowed by other users. If you are unable to borrow a license, see
your network administrator.
If you have a stand-alone version of the program, you cannot borrow a license.
You can, however, use the License Transfer Utility to transfer your license from
one computer to another. (See
License Transfer Utility on page 63.) To check
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