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To change the port number (Mac OS X 10.5, Leopard)
1 Log in as superuser (sudo -s).
2 Open the file /etc/services using your preferred text editor.
3 Edit the line: mi-raysat2011 7411/tcp.
4 Save the file.
5 Open a Terminal window and do the following:
sudo /usr/bin/dscl . -change /Services/mi-raysat2011port <cur
rentportnumber> <newportnumber>
For example:
sudo /usr/bin/dscl . -change /Services/mi-raysat2011 port 7109
7411
NOTE To determine the port youre currently using, in a Terminal window,
type: /bin/dscl . -read /Services/mi-raysat2011
6 Reboot your machine.
Licensing of satellite rendering
For standalone licenses, the use of mental ray for Maya with satellite can only
be initiated from the specified host for which your received your Maya key.
The workstation can distribute mental ray for Maya rendering to up to eight
slave CPUs.
For networked licenses, use of the functionality is slightly more flexible. For
networked license setups, the license running Maya and the license running
mental ray for Maya can be logged out separately, allowing certain rendering
tasks to be initiated remotely.
There are two possible cases when using mental ray for Maya with networked
licenses:
(Interactive) With Maya running interactively on a workstation, initiate a
mental ray for Maya render (either a single frame in the Render View, Batch
render or command line render) on the workstation. The networked mental
ray for Maya portion of your license is logged out. This allows the mental
ray satellite slaves indicated in your rayhost file to participate in the render.
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