render nodes

[sherridge101]

No, just for Maya 2016.
Where might I see if there is a separate service running?

[shaio]

When you open the Activity Monitor if a service is running there will be a "vray.bin" executable started. Also make sure that all processes are shown in the Activity Monitor.
Is it possible that you try to start/stop the render slave for Maya 2016.5 and not for Maya 2016, because all the commands for the terminal that we were posting were for Maya2016.5?

[sherridge101]

The "vray.bin" executable is running. All processes are showing.

The VRay installation is in the Maya/2016 folder and so I have been changing out '2016.5' in your posts, to 2016?

[sherridge101]

The command:
'sudo stopVRaySlaveDaemon'
Now, cannot be found.

Just wondering, should I do an uninstall and start again?

[shaio]

Reinstalling is not a bad option, just make sure when you make the new installation make sure you uncheck "Register V-Ray render slave as service" so vray.bin wont start on startup.
Also in the Activity Monitor you can check from where vray.bin is started by clicking on the infontmation button with "i" icon on the upper left corner and then the "Open Files and Ports" tab.

[sherridge101]

I uninstalled and reinstalled not registering the slave as a service.

I then ran the 'startVRaySlaveDaemon' but the slave is not registered as a daemon, so did the following:

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Last login: Thu Feb 9 13:13:56 on ttys000
BIRS44DX-RNF9VN:~ bir-fl-retoucher01$ sudo /Applications/ChaosGroup/V-Ray/Maya2016/bin/startVRaySlaveDaemon
V-Ray for Maya render slave is not registred as daemon! Run ./registerVRaySlaveDaemon to do this.
BIRS44DX-RNF9VN:~ bir-fl-retoucher01$ sudo /Applications/ChaosGroup/V-Ray/Maya2016/bin/registerVRaySlaveDaemon
Registering V-Ray for Maya Render Slave as daemon...
Run ./startVRaySlaveDaemon to start the daemon immediately.
Done!
BIRS44DX-RNF9VN:~ bir-fl-retoucher01$ sudo /Applications/ChaosGroup/V-Ray/Maya2016/bin/startVRaySlaveDaemon
Done!
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Vray.bin is running on the slave, but the host is not responding from within Maya.

[stefan.isakov]

The following error: "Failed to start network server: Failed to open listening port (4"
appears when you try to start vrayslave while it's already started on the node you want to use for Distributed rendering. Probably V-Ray DR slave has been registered and is already running as service (daemon) on the machine. That is why you may not start it again manually. You can open Activity monitor (in Applications folder) and see if there is vray.bin running.

Could you try to render without explicitly starting vrayslave? See if you will receive an error and if it will be the same.

If you already started vray.bin, and you can see it when you open Activity monitor, then please run the below commands in order to be sure that V-Ray slave is waiting for a connection on port 20207:

Please type in Terminal application:

ps -ef | grep -i vray

This way you will see if V-Ray slave is running and waiting for connection on port 20207, you can run the below command on the render slave , where issue appear:

telnet localhost 20207

This way you will be 100% sure that the port is open and V-Ray slave is waiting for connection on port 20207
You can send us the output of the above mentioned commands.
Anyway if the issue appears still and you are not able to start the V-Ray slave or something is not working, you can contact us at: support@chaosgroup and we will help your resolve this issue faster.

[stefan.isakov]

In addition to me previous post, please check the below link and set the V-Ray client license setting on your render node to point exactly to the machine where V-Ray license resides:
https://docs.chaosgroup.com/display/...nsing-MacOSX.1

[sherridge101]

Thanks for the info.

The settings have been updated:
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BIRS44DX-RQF9VN:~ steveh2$ sudo /Applications/Autodesk/maya2016/vray/bin/setvrlservice -server=10.80.1.225 -port=20207
Settings updated.
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Now in Maya I get this error:
// Error: Could not obtain an interface license (-200)! //

VRay license server status is ok, and I can load the VFB etc.

Cheers

[yolov]

Are you running the slave and Maya on the same machine?
Does the machine with IP 10.80.1.225 has an active license server running there?

[sherridge101]

Nope, Maya is on one machine and the slave (10.80.1.225) is a separate machine.

The slave doesn't have an active license server, just the standalone installation.
There is a copy of Maya on this machine, but not in use.

After entering the last command (sudo /Applications/Autodesk/maya2016/vray/bin/setvrlservice -server=10.80.1.225 -port=20207)
I cannot render anything, as I cannot obtain an interface license (-200).

When I get status from the license server:
V-Ray for Maya 3.0 Total Engaged Free
Interface licenses 1 0 1

Is there a way of rolling this back?

I'll email support also.

[yolov]

When you run setvrlservice on a machine, it tells that machine where to get a license from. If the machine where you're running setvrlservice is the same where the license server is running, just run it with:
setvrlservice -server=127.0.0.1 -port=30304

Port 30304 is for licensing, port 20207 is for DR rendering.
It would be best if we can make a remote session with you and figure out the settings on your machine. Just email support@chaosgroup.com and copy the title of this thread in your subject.

[stefan.isakov]

You can try the above mentioned command, but please change the ip address 10.80.1.225, to be the ip address of the machine where dongle resides and V-Ray license server is running and your V-Ray licenses is available.
sudo /Applications/Autodesk/maya2016/vray/bin/setvrlservice -server=(Machine where V-Ray license server is running) -port=20207

[sherridge101]

Cool, cheers. Now rendering ok on the main machine.

I've emailed support.

Cheers