Satellite problems

Maya
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Hi all,
I'd appreciate if someone could give me idea what is going on. Two problems:
1. Two identical freshly installed computers (XPpro serv2) have satellite on them. Complete let's two remote CPUs right? The maya MR gives up the render if in my maya.rayhosts are both listed. If only one of them (any) it works fine.
2. Since I couldn't make both remote computers to render via satellite I use only one. This one gives up as well if I try batch render. Works fine with maya viewport still render but with UI batch and command line batch as well drops it and gives me all sorts of strange DAG error lines. If I completely ignore satellite the batch render works fine with mental ray for maya on local.

Thanks in advance

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hey, just replaying to my self .. it might help to find out what all this is about. First of all I am not a network expert at all but looks like here is something wrong with the network. I've tried the maya workstation (master) in some other network environment. It worked perfectly with some other slaves. So what makes the difference? Is there a special network setup that has to run through the system or what? Just in case if you'd think on this; I turned off everywhere the windows firewall.

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the network itself might have another firewall.

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Hey Emil!

It's gareth from mds here

I just set up satellite on some xp sp2 machines here just last week

i did have a few problems but its all working fine now.. maybe you could write down the error codes you get and we could sort it out

Gareth

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hi Gareth,
Thanks, all works fine now. The problem was with the network switcher wich had somekind of firewall. We were just about replacing it with a bigger one so since that happened everything works.
Emil