5 Setting up client machines

Setting up client machines

To set up a Windows client, see Setting up a floating client machine using the Product Configuration Wizard.

For Linux or Mac OS X clients, you need to install mental ray on each client machine and set some environment variables.

To do so, you may need to edit the rayd file in the mental ray 3.6.51 bin directory. Fill in the name of your SPM License server and uncomment the setenv SPM_HOST line. This file may not be modifiable unless you have administrative privileges.

In order for the SPM_HOST environment variable to be picked up by the server, you may need to reboot your machine.

To set up Linux or Mac OS X client machine environment variables

1. Install the mental ray software on each client machine that will run mental ray. (If you also want to run mental ray on the license server machine, you will also need to set up the license server as a client machine using the instructions below.)
2. Add the install location of mental ray to your PATH environment variable:
• (Linux) /usr/autodesk/mi3651/bin
• (Mac OS X) /Applications/Autodesk/mentalrayStandalone3.6.51-Maya2008/bin

For example, by typing the following in a Terminal or shell window:

(Linux) (csh)

setenv PATH ${PATH}/usr/autodesk/mi3651/bin

(Mac OS X) (csh)

setenv PATH ${PATH}/Applications/AutodeskmentalrayStandalone3.6.51-Maya2008/bin

(Check your shell documentation for details of how to set your path.)

3. Create a new environment variable called SPM_HOST to identify your license server machine, for example:

setenv SPM_HOST <your_license_server>

where <your_license_server > is the name of your license server machine.

Note If you're not using the rayd file, for Mac OS X, these environment variables may need to be set up manually each time a user logs on, unless a .cshrc or .kshrc file is set up to do it at login. See your network administrator.