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DesignDawg

07-30-2002, 05:19 PM

Hey all,

MR for Maya has been a bit of a pain for me ever since we purchased it. It took me about a week to get the licensing to actually work on Win2000. I had high hopes that, since I now have a 100% working key, I wouldn't have trouble with a new install. Well, I went with XP, and I just can't get the stupid license to install. SO, I was wondering if anyone here has a legit copy of MR for Maya running on a legit license with the SPM license server under XP? The reason legit is so important is because, if you have a cracked version (if there even are any), you probably have the licensing bypassed somehow, and that doesn't answer my question really.

Thanks,

Ricky
DesignDawg

mushroomgod

07-30-2002, 07:28 PM

i cant realy help, but maya is not qualified to work on xp. so it might be posible that the licensins may not work also..

:annoyed:

Farhez

07-31-2002, 12:37 AM

The licensing tools in mental ray for Maya 1.0 require a
C:\WINNT directory (which is the case on Windows 2000).

On Windows XP, this directory isn't created, because Windows
is now installed to C:\Windows.

To fix your setup, create a C:\WINNT directory before you
install the software and this should get you up and running.

Hope this helps.

DesignDawg

07-31-2002, 02:12 PM

Farhez,

Wow. THANK YOU so much! I was beyond worried about this. Who could've known it could be so simple! BTW, when I was re-installing, I noticed one of the images on the installer is yours? Nice. Thanks again.

Ricky

DesignDawg

07-31-2002, 02:21 PM

Oh, by the way,

Even after I had created the folder, it still didn't work. I had to manually tell it what COM port to use in the config file. After it had successfully installed the license, I still couldn't get SPM to start up. After reading the log file, I realized it was because spmd couldn't FIND my license file. So, once again, I had to manually edit the path to the license file (the entire Windows path).. And it works like a champ now! Thanks again, Farhez.

Ricky

freshNfunky

01-06-2005, 10:59 PM

with spm license server

but in your case, edit the path for the: "spm-kf" file in the spm-config.

my problem is:
spmd doesn't want to start properly but my problem is more the service has a special tcp problem, i don't know why yet.

it always prompts in the logfile:
Jan/07/05 00:37:12 NOTICE: SPMD "C:\WINDOWS\System32\spm\spmd.exe (Ver.1.1.11 [Build 1242])" started on "chimera" (Windows NT 5.1 [2600])
Jan/07/05 00:37:13 ALERT: SPM_FATAL ERROR (C:\WINDOWS\System32\spm\spmd.exe) : mi-spm11/tcp and mi-spm/tcp: unknown services
Jan/07/05 00:37:13 CRITICAL: fatal error: "mi-spm11/tcp and mi-spm/tcp: unknown services".
Jan/07/05 00:37:17 ERROR: SPMD "C:\WINDOWS\System32\spm\spmd.exe (Ver.1.1.11 [Build 1242])" terminated.
nobody really had a solution to this, i googled the whole www after it...
no useful results.

cornbreadandham

01-07-2005, 01:53 AM

This site here may help:

http://www.lamrug.org/

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