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Table Of Contents
- Contents
- Maya Installation Guide
- Maya Licensing Guide
- Stand-Alone Licensing Guide
- Network Licensing Guide
- Quick Start to Autodesk Network Licensing
- Plan Your Network Licensing
- Autodesk Network Licensing Tools
- Network Licensing Tasks
- Glossary
- Index
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mental ray for Maya rendering > Network rendering using mental ray for
Maya.
Setting up the rayhosts file is required for mental ray for Maya satellite
rendering to work.
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\mrsat3.7.53-maya2010
(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/mrsat3.7.53-maya2010
(Linux) To install mental ray standalone with satellite licensing using rpm
1 Log in as root.
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