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Quick Start to Autodesk
Network Licensing
Setting up network licenses for an Autodesk
®
product requires careful planning and execution.
This section gives you quick, step-by-step instructions about how to set up a network licensed
environment, and assumes that you are familiar with the terminology and processes required
to set up an Autodesk product to run on a network. If you are not familiar with network
licensing, please read the entire Network Licensing Guide for further details before you attempt
to set up a network license server.
NOTE This guide is intended to describe the licensing procedures for all Autodesk
products. Some of the following topics refer to using the Network License Activation
utility to obtain your network license. Note that this utility is not used to obtain network
licenses for Maya. Instead, you use the Autodesk Register Once Web page to obtain your
network license for Maya. (See Obtain a Network License on page 77.)
Set Up a Maya License Server
To configure your machines to serve and receive Maya licenses across a network,
you must set up the license server machine, then set up each client computer
that obtains a license from the server.
The basic workflow for setting up a license server is as follows:
1 Install the Network License Manager.
2 Obtain your network license.
3 Configure your license server using the appropriate platform-specific steps:
■
Configure a License Server (Windows) on page 79
■ Configure a License Server (Mac OS X) on page 81
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