Did you allow the processes in the windows-firewall? (raysat.exe, raysatsi20blablablaserver.exe, xsibatch.exe) Not sure if the raysatsi..server.exe has to be allowed on each client but won't hurt them.
The rayhost file can contain machine names as well as the IP adresses. Should not make a difference. I remember someone from softimage or mental images once said, when having problems connecting to the satellites, try using the IPs instead of the names. But this was years ago and I always used the machine names without problems. Most likely you problem is related to firewall settings. From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Dan Yargici Sent: Thursday, April 18, 2013 12:29 To: [email protected] Subject: Satellite rendering with 2012sp1 It's ages since I needed to do this (or even used MR for that matter...) but I'm familiar enough with it to say that I'm not a noob. I've also meticulously followed the guides on Stephen's blog to the letter. However, it doesn't work. No errors anywhere, just nothing. All services are running on all machines, I can ping them all, I've triple checked my rayhosts file contents and location. Everything I can think of. Nothing. If I run Process Monitor on a slave it also shows me that nothing is happening there. Also worth noting is that the machines do not have static IP addresses (but I can ping them using their hostnames from my machine - which is the master) and my Softimage takes longer that usual to startup (timing out?). Not sure how to go about debugging this so I'm open to all ideas. DAN p.s. Please don't question why I need to use Satellite rendering in the first place - I have very good reason to! :)
