mental ray satellite setup

[DarkLane]

Hmmm, can anyone help? I keep getting this error when I start a frame render from within Maya.
I'm running 4 Fedora 13 machines and the master is a Win 7 machine. I can ping them all just fine and the firewall port on 7410 is clear both on samba and the router. I've installed the satellites on the fedora boxes and Maya 2010 is installed on the master machine. My maya.rayhosts file is the user folder with the name and port identified. Do I need to install a service on the master? This is definitely not in the documentation. Any help appreciated

Error message

mental ray for Maya 2010
mental ray: version 3.7.53.5, Jun 17 2009, revision 88216
initMPS with licenseOption 0
mental ray: got 8 satellite CPUs.
MSG 0.0 error 011329: mi-ray/tcp: not a service (check %SystemRoot%\system32\drivers\etc\services)
MSG 0.0 warn 012219: using fallback inet service 7003
MSG 0.0 error 011213: cannot receive welcome message from host 1 (active)
MSG 0.0 error 011706: cannot add host VALIANT:7410
MSG 0.0 fatal 011513: SLAVE 1 DIED
MSG 0.0 fatal 011513: SLAVE 1 DIED

[bart]

This should be in the installation documentation. The mi-ray service should have been installed on the master. Did you check the etc/services file it mentions to confirm that the mi-ray service is in there (usually at the bottom of the file)? Did you install as the Administrative user?

[van_der_goes]

This should be in the installation documentation. The mi-ray service should have been installed on the master. Did you check the etc/services file it mentions to confirm that the mi-ray service is in there (usually at the bottom of the file)? Did you install as the Administrative user?

Sorry for the silly question, but how can I install the mi-ray service on the master? Maya doesn't install it automatically.

[bart]

It should. What OS? Have you reported it to AD?

[van_der_goes]

I'm on windows 7 64 bit, but I had the same behavior under xp64. Mi-ray is not displayed under the service tab of the master machine. To make satellite work without errors or warnings in the output window I always had to add manually the line "mi-ray portNumber" to system32/drivers/etc/service of the master pc. I did not report it to autodesk because I didn't know maya should have installed this service.

[van_der_goes]

May a non-english version of the os cause problems - in general not only on this particular issue? I'm on Italian version of win7