For what it's worth, I found the new Autodesk license server prefers the client license reference by machine name and not by IP address: SERVER machineName.domain.com 0 -----Original Message----- >From: Mike Owen [mailto:mjnowen@gmail.com] >Sent: Friday, September 3, 2010 06:32 PM >To: discuss@studiosysadmins.com >Subject: [SSA-Discuss] MatchMover 2011 Product Activation > >A product activation issue with Matchmover BUT potentially only under quite >specific config. > >1. Win 7 x64 OS - fresh build. No version of Maya ever installed on it. >2. Maya 2011 x64 hotfix 3 installed. >3. Also, things like Composite 2011 & Matchmover 2011 installed as well. >4. Licensing via standard flexlm, single licence server. >5. Windows system environment variables set, "MAYA_ALT_EN" and the other one >that controls global "documents\maya" location (can't remember the exact >location of teh top of my head) >6. The "MAYA_ALT_EN" tells local clients to use licence path = >"c:\flexlm\aw.dat" which in turn points to the float server. >6. Maya 2011 and Composite 2011 startup fine pulling flexlm licence from >floating server, which is running Win2003 x32. > >HOWEVER... > >Matchmover 2011 boots up ONLY after I make the hack as described at the >bottom of the following forum post: >http://community.softimage.com/forum/autodesk-maya/matchmoving/matchmover-crash-at-start-please-help/page-2/ >*ie:* >*This is a fresh install of Maya 2011 with Matchmover 2011 and I had never >had any Maya 2010 product installed before.* >*Fixed the issue: In c:\flexlm\MatchMoverLicense.log file it references >?623866 ::: ?c:/Program Files/Autodesk/Maya2010/adlm/en_US??* >*So I simply created that path: c:\Program >Files\Autodesk\Maya2010\adlm\en_US* >*Then copied ?AdlmIntRes.xml? from c:\Program >Files\Autodesk\Maya2011\adlm\en_US to : c:\Program >Files\Autodesk\Maya2010\adlm\en_US* > >Now this solves the startup failure for me and Matchmover application now >starts up, BUT the Matchmover "Product Activation" web window now pops up, >stating I have 20 days to register the product and surprise, surprise, >working through the web-page for registering online, my Maya serial number >is invalid, although I have checked with my reseller and its fine. > >So, it looks like Matchmover 2011 hates running on a Windows OS if it has >never had Maya2010 installed and more importantly licensed on it. The forum >post hack helped BUT didn't completely resolve licensing issues. > >Has anyone seen this issue or know of any workarounds/solutions? Does a >Matchmover system environment variable exist to enforce network float >licensing? >Thanks, >Mike > _______________________________________________ StudioSysAdmins-Discuss mailing list StudioSysAdmins-Discuss@studiosysadmins.com http://mailman.studiosysadmins.com/mailman/listinfo/studiosysadmins-discuss