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your license type, open the Product License Information dialog box by selecting
Help > Licensing from the main menu bar in Maya.
Borrow a Maya License
You can run Maya when your computer is not connected to the network until
your license borrowing period ends. If you do not remember the date that a
license expires, you can check the date by launching Maya and selecting Help
> Licensing to open the Product License Information dialog box.
NOTE You can find more information on license borrowing in your FLEXnet
Licensing End User Guide. That guide also provides information on disabling license
borrowing.
Borrow a license
To borrow a license (Windows)
1 Open the LMTOOLS utility by selecting Start > Programs > Autodesk >
Common Utilities > FlexLM License Utilities.
2 In the LMTOOLS utility, switch to the Borrowing tab.
3 In the Vendor Name field, enter adskflex.
4 Enter the Return Date and the Return Time, then click Set Borrow
Expiration.
5 Launch Maya.
This borrows a Maya license from the server.
6 (Optional) If you plan to use any sub-features of Maya (such as fluid
simulation, mental ray rendering, or the mental ray local batch render)
while using a borrowed license, use those sub-features now while you are
still connected to your license server. This automatically borrows a license
for those sub-features.
After you have used the sub-feature(s) while connected to your license
server, you can then use the sub-features later when you are not
connected.
To borrow a license (Mac OS X or Linux)
1 Open a shell (Linux) or Terminal (Mac OS X) window.
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