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5 Launch Maya.
This borrows a Maya license from the server.
6 Use any sub-features of Maya (such as fluid simulation, mental ray
rendering, or the mental ray local batch render) 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 Maya license (Mac OS X or Linux)
1 Open a shell (Linux) or Terminal (Mac OS X) window.
2 Execute the following command: lmutil lmborrow adskflex enddate
[time]
where enddate is the date you will return the license, formatted as follows:
dd-mmm-yyyy. The time argument is optional, but is specified in 24-hour
format (hh:mm).
For example: lmutil lmborrow adskflex 14-oct-2010 [14:00] borrows
a license until October 14, 2010 at 2:00 pm.
3 Launch Maya.
This borrows a Maya license from the server.
4 Use any sub-features of Maya (such as fluid simulation, mental ray
rendering, or the mental ray local batch render) 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.
Stop borrowing a Maya license
Stopping license borrowing is different from returning a license. You can stop
borrowing licenses if you have already checked out all of the licenses you
want, but you still plan to use sub-features while you are connected to the
network server and do not want to borrow those licenses.
For example, you can borrow a Maya license and a mental ray subfeature
license, then stop borrowing so that when you use fluid simulation (and
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