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Installing mental ray for Maya satellite

Slave machine additional setup

 

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Slave machine installation

The special version of mental ray standalone with satellite rendering technology must be installed on all slave machines. The satellite-enabled versions of mental ray for Windows, Mac OS X, and Linux are included with this release of Maya on the Maya DVD.

(Windows) To install mental ray standalone with satellite licensing

1. On each slave machine, begin the installation process by inserting the Maya DVD, opening the mental ray satellite folder and the platform-specific Windows folder, and double-clicking the mental ray standalone installer.

   The installer appears.

2. Follow the installation steps.

   During the installation, you can click Custom to change the installation directory. The default installation directory is:

   C:\Program Files\Autodesk\mrsat3.7.1-Maya2009

(Mac OS X) To install mental ray standalone with satellite licensing

1. On each slave machine, begin the installation process by inserting the Maya DVD, opening the mental ray satellite folder and double-clicking the mental ray standalone installer.
2. Follow the installation steps.

   During the installation, you can change the installation directory. The default installation directory is:

   /Applications/Autodesk/mrsat3.7.1-Maya2009

(Linux) To install mental ray standalone with satellite licensing using rpm

1. Log in as root.
2. On each slave machine, begin the installation process by inserting the Maya DVD.
3. Mount the DVD drive, if necessary. For example, type:

   mount -r /dev/dvd /mnt/dvd

4. Open the mental ray satellite directory, go to the platform-specific linux directory, and enter the following command (where # is the specific package number):

   (64-bit) rpm -ivh mentalraySatellite3.7.1_Maya2009-3.7-119.x86_64.rpm

   Note64-bit Windows releases of mental ray for Maya satellite use the same port and service name as the 32-bit version. You will run into problems if you install both the 32-bit and the 64-bit versions on a 64-bit system. There is only one service entry/xinetd config, so installing a 64-bit package after the 32-bit (or the other way around) leaves only the last installed version working.