They have changed their license file format for 2010. It is no longer called aw.dat, it is called maya.lic and it is a completely different format.

On 2010-03-09, at 2:31 PM, James W. Williams wrote:

I am having an awful time getting Maya 2010 stand alone licenses to work in my environment. Through Maya 2009, it worked fine. The node locked licenses all went into /usr/local/flexlm/aw.dat, which was shared from an NFS server. (I should mention that all of our Maya workstations are Linux systems running CentOS 5.3.) Maya 2010 has changed all that. We have a few floating licenses and I've got them working with 2010. But when I tried to install the stand alone 2010s, I get to the point where a popup is supposed to appear and ask for my serial number and product key. Instead, I get a popup that says this:

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License was not obtained Tried Maya Unlimited 2010 (657B1 2010.0.0.F), error 20

License method: environment variable MAYA_LICENSE_METHOD='standalone'

Product choice: environment variable MAYA_LICENSE='unlimited'

License file override: environment variable MAYA_ALT_EN is not set

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I was finally able to get Maya 2010 working on one workstation but I had to replace it's NFS mounted /usr/local (which contains our previous versions of Maya) with an actual local copy of /usr/local from which I had purged all previous version of Maya. But that won't do in the long term since we need to be able to run previous versions of Maya as well as 2010.

I've tried looking at what was put in the local /usr/local tree, which works, and comparing it to the NFS copy, which doesn't work, but I can't find any important differences.

So, a specific question. When one activates Maya 2010 with a stand alone license, where is that information stored? Where is the actual license file put? The documentation is utterly silent on this.

Any other suggestions would be welcome, as I'm totally out of ideas, and really, really, frustrated with Maya and Autodesk at this point.

Many thanks, Jim Williams

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