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Overview of mental ray (satellite)
Installing mental ray for Maya satellite
Slave machine additional setup
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
- 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.
- 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
- 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.
- 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
- Log
in as root.
- On
each slave machine, begin the installation process by inserting
the Maya DVD.
- Mount
the DVD drive, if necessary. For example, type:
mount -r /dev/dvd /mnt/dvd
- 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.