ok i had xsi running perfect and iinstalled maya on my pc and now neither of em work can someone help me my friend said i should change the port numbers but that did nothing maybe i need to chane em somewere else please ifyoucan help me that would be great because i cant do anything as it is now
Your friend is right.....you often get conflicts having the same port for each license server.
You should first stop the 2 licenses server if they start automatically with windows. Then assign different ports and try starting only one and the application.
RCR
Hey ... first use LMTOOLS or Services Control Panel to shutdown the two license servers. Then go to your licensing directory (Maya or XSI), and open the *.dat or *.lic file. Find the "SERVER" line; there should be a port number there, typically both of them try to claim 744. Edit one of them to something else (e.g. put Maya to 745). Save the file and exit. Now, in your environment, change the LM_LICENSE_PATH which may read something like:
744@ALIAS_LMHOST;...
and change that to "745@ALIAS_LMHOST"
Restart lmgrd's from LMTOOLS or Services and you should be able to run both now.
Thoeretically though, shouldn't having both software on the same port work? Correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't FlexLM just a service that software queries for licensing validation and that's it?
My thought would be that if he re-generates the .LIC file with his XSI stuff and then adds the Maya stuff below it, shouldn't it work?
I get to deal with this dandy problem later when I acquire Maya Unlimited.
I don't use Maya anymore. However, when I did, I installed as though the other existed. They both made their own FlexLM servers and ignored each other. I did have a problem on one system, and had to put the dongle for the product I was using frist on the parallel port. Other than that I haven't seen any conflicts.
Has anyone called Soft about this?
Urp