Solved: Mental Ray Satellite with Maya 2015 not connecting

Anonymous · ‎11-01-2015

Hi, I'm trying to do network rendering with mr satellite on Maya 2015 x64 SP6 (also mental ray for maya SP6).
I installed mr satellite 3.12.1 on Maya SP4's page since I didn't find it on SP5 or SP6's.

First thing I don't understand, the instructions on this page tells to install it on the slaves, while this tutorial seems to show the opposite. So I first did the whole process on the slave and when I had no good result I did it on both.

Whole process :

• I manually created maya.rayhosts under Documents/maya/2015-x64/prefs and put:
192.168.1.25:7415
(the master's ip adress on the slave computer and vice versa, followed by the port)
• I then launched mental ray Satellite in Services (administration tools)

Then I opened my maya scene on the master and clicked "render current frame" with only "render on network machines" checked.

It only used the local machine and I got these messages in the output window :

MSG  0.0      8 MB warn   012229: could not connect to host:port 192.168.1.25:7415 - A connection attempt failed because the connected party did not properly respond after a period of time, or established connection failed because connected host has failed to respond. (IPv4)
MSG  0.0      8 MB error  011228: mi_msg_connect: failed to create active socket
MSG  0.0      8 MB error  011706: cannot add host 192.168.1.25:7415
MSG  0.0      8 MB error  011329: mi-ray/tcp: not a service (check %SystemRoot%\system32\drivers\etc\services)
MSG  0.0      8 MB warn   012219: using fallback inet service 7003
API  1.4     13 MB error  301156: undefined data block "maya_scene:colortransformdata"

I reinstalled Visual C++ 2012 as recommended in this page but it did nothing.

My computers are correctly connected via a simple residential gateway and they have the same versions of everything.

I don't have more ideas. Do you ? Or maybe one last : should I install Maya SP4 ?

Thanks in advance for your help.

Anonymous · ‎11-01-2015

I disabled my firewall and it worked !!

So now I found the minimum set up :

• Disable firewall on slave only (I still let my Windows Defender antivirus active)

• Install and launch mr Satellite on slave only

• Put maya.rayhosts on master only, with the slave's ip adress

• Render

Hope it helps anybody else.