All slave machines require mental ray for Maya Satellite or mental ray standalone.
When you install mental ray standalone, the installation automatically sets up your machine as a server to receive network render requests. If you are encountering problems with network rendering follow the steps below.
To set up a slave on Windows (mental ray standalone)
To verify this, go to the Services window from the Administrative Tools and check to see if the Ray Server service exists and is started.
If the Ray Server service exists but is not started, go to step 5.
mi-ray 38010/tcp mi-spm 7050/tcp
38010 represents the port number used for rendering requests and 7050 represents the port number used for licensing connections to SPM. Make sure the port number used for rendering requests is the same on the master machine and all slave machines (here, 38010).
ray /install
ray.exe should automatically be in your path and is located in the bin directory of the mental ray installation.
When the service successfully starts, the machine is ready to receive network render requests.
When you install mental ray for Maya Satellite on a slave machine, the installation automatically sets up your machine as a server to receive network render requests. If you are encountering problems with network rendering follow the steps below.
To set up a slave on Windows (mental ray for Maya Satellite)
To verify this, go to the Services window from the Administrative Tools and check to see if the RaySat Server service exists and is started.
If the RaySat Server service exists but is not started, go to step 5.
7411 represents the port number. Make sure the port number is the same on the master machine and all slave machines.
raysat2011 /install
raysat2011.exe should automatically be in your path and is located in the bin directory of the mental ray installation.
When the service successfully starts, the machine is ready to receive network render requests.
The mental ray standalone installer does not set up your machine as a slave automatically. You need to follow the steps below with administrative privileges on all Linux machines.
To set up a slave on Linux (mental ray standalone)
/usr/autodesk/mi381/bin/netsetup -s
You are prompted for the name of the SPM license server. It defaults to the local host.
The machine is now ready to receive network render requests.
The mental ray standalone installer does not set up your machine as a slave automatically. You need to follow the steps below with administrative privileges on all Mac OS X machines.
To set up a slave on Mac OS X (mental ray standalone)
/Applications/Autodesk/mentalray3.8.1/bin
The machine is now ready to receive network render requests.