Windows XP Home Edition Maya installation | Network card mac address

[Seven]

Anyone ? I really would like to clarify this.

[Beechdbum]

dont think this is what you want to hear, but i used maya 5 unlimited student edition on windows xp home, got it to install but it had multiple problems and continuously crashed my computer lost lot of files :annoyed: , the only way i could find to solve the problem was to upgrade to windows xp pro, and i had no more crashing worked perfectly with no more crashing and so even though you said dont go their, it was my only solution i could find and i figure might as well let you know

[Doogie]

I havent used XP home, but IPX/SPX support is pretty much a legacy protocol and doubtfully will be used by anything you have. I didnt think it was defaultly installed in any version of XP.

Id say delete it, but since I dont think it should be defaulty installed, some other program may have installed it. (I dont see how IPX/SPX would block your MAC access)

I dont see why Home would block program's access to the MAC address either. A lot of programs (including partly WinXP's protection sceme) use this as a unique ID for for copy protection.

Since I'm not familiar with Home or the installlation process for Maya Student, I dont think I was much help.

If you can get Maya installed, you can always generate the license later... even if it involves calling Alias support to write the text file yourself by hand.

[nikita]

When I installed Maya on XP Pro on a brand new computer a couple of months ago the program that's supposed to give you the MAC address (part of the FlexLM utilities) was totally off and gave me a bad address. The solution was to do a good old "ipconfig" in the shell and send that address to Alias to generate the license file.

What that means is that even if FlexLM is giving you back some strange results it doesn't mean that Maya isn't going to run. Just make sure that you use "ipconfig" to read the MAC.

Having said that I'd still recommend you to get XP Pro rather than trying to make it work with Home. You can save yourself a lot of time (and compared to what you payed for the Maya license it still isn't expensive).

Or you could grab a license of Windows 2000 Pro which in my opinion is still the better option for Maya (I hate those window focus problems!).

[Seven]

Thanks for the help guys, ill think about getting Pro, not sure I can afford it. But im glad it will run on Home, even if I might have to set Alias involved :)

[Doogie]

XP pro is still expensive, but doesn't carry the $299 price tag it used to. I found XP pro (oem) for $145 on newegg and you might be able to find it cheaper elsewhere.

I'd suggest Linux, but I dunno if they support a student version.

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