Q100674: How to set up your Team Login render licenses with a render farm

Pete

Updated: March 26, 2026 17:44

Created: January 20, 2026 15:58

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With the introduction of Team Login licenses, organisations have been granted more control over their licenses when using their software remotely. Setting up your Team licenses for use on a render farm will require some configuration, this article goes through the steps necessary to configure Teams Login licenses with a render farm.

For steps on how to set up a render farm please refer to the following article: Q100104: How to set up Nuke and Nuke licenses for a render farm

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In order to license your render farm using your Team license, please follow the instructions below:

1. Firstly, launch Nuke in interactive mode (i.e, using Nuke's GUI) and log in to obtain the license tokens and preference file. Instructions on activating Nuke can be found here: Q100660: How to activate your Team Login license

NOTE: If you do not have an interactive Teams license please contact Support via these steps as a manual folder will need to be created for your render licenses to work: Q100064: How to raise a support ticket

2. With Nuke now activated, navigate to the directory where these tokens and preference files are stored.

By default this folder can be found in the following directories:

Linux: $HOME/.local/share/Foundry/Tokens

Windows: C:\Users\<USERNAME>\AppData\Local\Foundry\Tokens

OSX: /Users/<USERNAME>/Library/Application Support/Foundry/Tokens

3. Copy the Foundry folder (containing the Tokens folder) to a centrally accessible location such as a network drive. Your set-up on your accessible location should look something like this:

CustomFolder\Foundry\Tokens\token & preference files

4. Now your Team license tokens have been set up, you will need to set the following environment variable on both the main machine and the render machines:

“FOUNDRY_CLOUDLIC_READ_DIRS=/path/to/tokens”

This will point Nuke and the render machines to this new shared license token location.

Information on setting environment variables can be found here: Q100015: How To Set Environment Variables

NOTE: This environment variable sets the parent directory, so it should point to the folder that contains your Foundry\Tokens\token & preference files. For example, in the following setup, the Foundry\Tokens folders have been placed in a folder named FarmTokens on a shared C: drive:

In this case, the environment variable would look like this:

“FOUNDRY_CLOUDLIC_READ_DIRS=C:\FarmTokens”

5. With this environment variable now set, your remote render machines should now successfully be licensed using Team Login licensing.

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