Maya 2013: Using mental ray Satellite with Windows 7

We have had users report that mental ray satellite 2013 is not running on some Windows 7 machines.  Users have reported errors of failed connection to the satellite machine or even running the service will fail with errors.

For more details, please check out this post via the Maya Station:

http://mayastation.typepad.com/maya-station/2012/04/mental-ray-satellite-2013-windows-not-working-on-machines.html