Mental Ray Satellite Help!

Hey everybody,
Alright lets see if I can explain my situation here. So I have Maya 2008 running on 10.5 aluminum imac, I have a playstaion 3 running yellow dog linux with the respective version of mental ray satellite installed. The mac and the PS3 are hard wired together and are sharing a internet connection. Maya refuses to recognize the mrsat on the linux server. I have pinged both the systems back and forth and they are talking to each other fine. I made sure to create the text file with the ip address of the mrsat linux machine including the port on the end of the ip address. What the heck am I doing wrong can anyone point my in the right direction? Any help would be greatly appreciated thanks ahead of time.