This tutorial is geared towards Maya users with little or no experience working in the Windows Shell. It was written to help students in a class I was in to help them better understand how to launch batch renders from the command line, and how to create batch scripts to execute a number of separate file renders automatically. Command line rendering allocates more system resources to the render processes than if one were to render with Maya open. Additionally, in an environment using a license and a server (such as in most universities and large businesses) there are often more users than there are licenses! So, in addition to being less efficient and more unstable, batch rendering from within Maya locks up a license unnecessarily. All in all, unless it's for a preview, it's better to render with Maya closed! 
LINK:http://www.3dtotal.com/team/Tutorials_3/command_line_rendering/command01.asp
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