Hi ,

For the ones having pain to install Rman and brothers ; here's link to a site wich explain in details how to connect houdini to renderman and compliants renderers : http://www.gravatonia.com/ [gravatonia.com] . or precisely
http://www.gravatonia.com/safari_hrman_main.htm [gravatonia.com]
Don't ask me if it's works , I'm not using maya/renderman anymore , but i would like to see your feedbacks . May be i will reinstall it in the futur .

Regards .