Slave machine setup

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)

  1. Ensure there is a rayrc file in the mental ray installation directory (C:\Program Files\Autodesk\mentalray). This file is automatically created during a default installation.
  2. Ensure that the mental ray service is installed and running.

    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.

  3. If the Ray Server service does not exist, edit the services file located at:
    • (Windows) C:\Windows\System32\drivers\etc
  4. Make sure the following lines exist:

    adskmr3131 31310/tcp

    31310 represents the port number used for rendering requests and 7050 represents the port number used for licensing connections. Make sure the port number used for rendering requests is the same on the master machine and all slave machines (here, 31310).

  5. Double-click the Ray Server service in the Services Window (Administrative Tools in the Control Panel) to start it.

    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)

  1. Ensure there is a rayrc file in the mental ray installation directory (C:\Program Files\Autodesk\mentalraysatellite\). This file is automatically created during a default installation.
  2. Ensure that the mental ray service is installed and running.

    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.

  3. If the RaySat Server service does not exist, edit the services file located at:
    • (Windows) C:\Windows\System32\drivers\etc
  4. Make sure the following line exists:

    mi-raysat2016 7416/tcp

    7416 represents the port number. Make sure the port number is the same on the master machine and all slave machines.

  5. Double-click the RaySat Server service in the Services Window (Administrative Tools in the Control Panel) to start it or type raysat2016 /start.

    When the service successfully starts, the machine is ready to receive network render requests.

    If you use Satellite rendering regularly, you can optionally set the service startup type to automatic.

Linux

The mental ray standalone installer does not set up your machine as a slave automatically. With administrative privileges on all Linux machines, type the following command in a shell: 
usr/autodesk/mrstand3.13.1-x64/bin/netsetup -s

Mac OS X

The mental ray standalone installer does not set up your machine as a slave automatically. With administrative privileges on all Mac OS X machines, add the install location of mental ray to your path: 
/Applications/Autodesk/mentalray3.13.1/bin

Related topics

Parent topic: Network rendering using Satellite and Standalone