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Hi, I have the same issue, trying to get a MacBookPro to help rendering on a MacPro (quadcore) master. It only renders on the master machine. I can ping the MacBookPro from the MacPro, on the MacBookPro I have enabled “allow incoming connection” on the firewall for raysatd and raysat… On the master machine Maya and MayaBatch have “allow incoming connection” enabled on the firewall. I have also tried switching off both machines’ firewalls… I understand I can network render MR on eight slave machines.
I have used a port scan from the master machine to the slave and can see port 7412 is open.
It seems as though Maya just ignores the request to render on networked machines. It gives no warning error or response or feedback. Looking at the console render log, I see this at the near the start:
mental ray for Maya 2012
// Mental ray for Maya: using startup file /Applications/Autodesk/maya2012/Maya.app/Contents/mentalray/maya.rayrc.
mental ray for Maya: setup
mental ray for Maya: initialize
mental ray: version 3.9.1.47, Sep 7 2011, revision 156247
mental ray for Maya: using 1 license
mental ray for Maya: register extensions
// mental ray Node Factory: loaded
mental ray for Maya: successfully registered
mental ray for Maya: loading startup file: /Applications/Autodesk/maya2012/Maya.app/Contents/mentalray/maya.rayrc
// parsing /Applications/Autodesk/maya2012/Maya.app/Contents/mentalray/include/AdskShaderSDKWrappers.mi
// generating Maya nodes… [...]
A few lines down:
File read in 7 seconds.
Result: /Volumes/Documents & scratch/Documents/MayaProjects/Plant testing/Lynda Nat Terrain2/scenes/Scene05__3061.mb
initMPS with licenseOption 0
mental ray: got 8 satellite CPUs.
MEM 0.0 info : heap size limit set to 8746 MB
Info: (mental ray) : number of render thread(s): 4
Info: (Mayatomr.Nodes) : custom string options found
Info: (Mayatomr.Nodes) : derive mental ray global approximation settings from Maya [...]
I have a maya.rayhosts file in users/username/Library/Preferences/Autodesk/maya/en_US/2012/prefs
I created the folders: /en_US/2012/prefs - to conform to the User’s Guide, they didn’t exist initially.
I also have another same maya.rayhosts file in /Applications/Autodesk/maya2012 (in case it couldn’t find the other file)
The file’s content is just the characters 192.168.0.40:7412
Hoping someone can assist?
Thanks
Author: Artfart
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