Product: Zoo
Summary: An overview of how Rhino for Windows finds a Zoo license manager server.
When Rhino needs a license from a Zoo server, it determines the name of the Zoo server by looking in the following locations in this order:
When searching in HKEY_CURRENT_USER, of the Windows Registry, for the host name or IP address of your Zoo server, both 32-bit and 64-bit Rhino will look in this location:
Hive: HKEY_CURRENT_USER Key: Software\McNeel\Rhinoceros\5.0\License Manager Name: Server Type: REG_SZ Value: <host name or IP address>
If you are using a 32-bit version of Windows, then when searching in HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE, of the Windows Registry, for the host name or IP address of your Zoo server, Rhino 32-bit will look in this location:
Hive: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE Key: Software\McNeel\Rhinoceros\5.0\License Manager Name: Server Type: REG_SZ Value: <host name or IP address>
If you are using a 64-bit version of Windows, then when searching in HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE, of the Windows Registry, for the host name or IP address of your Zoo server, both 32-bit and 64-bit Rhino will look in this location:
Hive: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE Key: SOFTWARE\Wow6432Node\McNeel\Rhinoceros\5.0\License Manager Name: Server Type: REG_SZ Value: <host name or IP address>
If Rhino fails to determines the name of the Zoo server, by searching in the Windows Registry, then it will query your DNS server for the default Zoo server, which is the following host name:
__mcneel.__zoo5
For example, if your company's domain is mcneel.com, then you can add a DNS alias of __mcneel.__zoo5.mcneel.com which points to your Zoo server.