Slave machine additional setup

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Once this version of mental ray is installed and running, a service on the machine (the Ray Sat server) waits for rendering tasks from mental ray for Maya on the master machine. The satellite-enabled version of mental ray does not require its own licensing; it is activated through Maya’s licensing.

On the slave machine, the Ray Sat server (service name: mental ray Satellite 3.7.1 for Maya 2009)must be running. To verify that it is running on Windows, follow this procedure.

To verify that Ray Sat server is running (Windows)

Open a Windows command prompt.
Navigate to the /bin directory of the mental ray satellite standalone. By default this is C:\Program Files\Autodesk\mrsat3.7.1-Maya2009\bin\.
Type the following:
```
raysat2009server /query
```
A message should be returned that the RaySat2009 Server service is running.

If you do not get this message, make sure that RaySat2009 Server has been installed as a service, and start it from the Services Control Panel (Settings > Control Panel > Administrative Options > Services) or type the following:
```
raysat2009server /start
```