I'm trying to get NetRender working, and I'm running into a problem: if I run RenderMessenger on the same PC as the render server, it works fine. If I run it on a different machine, the render slave starts up, the "Status" field goes briefly to "Connected to Render", then it changes to "Unable to open project".

When I look at the error in the render server, it just says "Unable to open project \\server\path\project-name.prj", but nothing else.

Is there a way to enable a more verbose error log, to let me know exactly where it's failing? (i.e. is it a certain file it's not finding, is it unable to open the UNC path, etc.?)

Thanks,
Jeff

One possiblity is you have a firewall running or your permissions are incorrect for renderslave to get to the project.

Easy way to test it... can you open the project in a windows explorer window... i.e. - double click 'My Computer' and put in your network path for the project directory... you should be able to open the project with notepad or wordpad to verify the permissions thing.

Let us know the outcome.

Well, it shows up in the bottom pane of the render server, and RenderMessenger does start RenderSlave when I start the job on RenderServer. So there's definitely communication between the two Windows machines. And NET USE shows a valid connection to the file server on the slave machine, as well.

Edit: Never mind, it was a stupid error. My slave machine was logged in to the file server with the wrong credentials. Duh. It's working like a charm.

Now to see if I can add my Linux machine to the pool...

Jeff,

I really like how V13 NR works. The throttle delay is sweet!
There is that "est" after the project that doesn't seem to correlate to anything.......

Please let us know how the Linux experiment works out.

David

Todays beta should have the the est (estimated job time) working better. (average frame time * frames left / working slaves)

The status message for the throtte delay has been tiedied up as well.

YAY!... Hash ROCKS!...

I've said it before... but Hash ROCKS!

Not to sound anxious, but when today??

This pretty much matches an issue I'm having now but I'm not familiar with the 'credentials' mentioned. I had my farm going fine before but a few things have been changed sine then. Now I'm working primarily on a Notebook connected wirelessly(other machine are wired). Could that that be the issue. Also, 2 of my machines my machines were upgraded to XP (1 to Pro and 1 to Media center-the Notebook) since the last time I used netrender. Using Net 13g+.

Thanks

Scott

PS:I'm using the free version of ZoneAlarm, I was using it before when it was working too...so not sure how that figures in.

You must have windows firewall turned off or at least the port that NetRender uses. Also, Zone alarm should let you make a rule or you should instruct Zone Alarm to allow NetRender to work... also, if you are sharing files, you must allow windows to talk to each other (I don't remember the ports involved.)

Basically if you can't browse to the shared drive on the computer you are trying to run NetRender Client on, it will not be able to access the files.

As to going to XP... from what? 2k? 98SE? NT? which one? What are the rest of your machines running?

These are the questions that will help.

Genius!!



It now occurs to me that I had just been lucky in past in that I just happen to have had the source folder on a shared drive. Live and learn. But anyway, yeah, the other machines are running 2K. I'm still getting used to XP, but I should be ok now. Thanks again!

Scott

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