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Is Render Farm working in the latest stable version ?

Posted by Boothy on March 28, 2011 at 12:28am in IRender nXt ArielVision 3D Design Studio (Sket

Hi Rich

 

Is render farm working in the latest stable\beta versions ? - I have everything set up as per previous setup - renderfarmer and paths set up - The farm monitor indicates that both machines are active but it only seems to assign slice\job to host machine.I have tried on various sizes of models with no success. I have set path within public documents folder which both machines have access to (I have tried manually copying to and from both ) I did also try individual paths to see if this made any difference .Both current test machines are win 7 based. I have also authorised both host and remote render farmers and have both running as the active status should suggest.

 

Any ideas?

 

Thanks

 

Boothy

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  • Boothy March 31, 2011 at 8:48pm

    Hi Al

    I installed new 64 bit version on both machine and still did not work but thanks anyway - I may revisit this at a later point but really have not the time to indulge at the moment.

    I still think there must be a access write issue but I have spent hours now refering to both test machines and cannot find solution. The new project files\sub folders created during extraction process have restricted access from client machine which is my primary suspect but I will need to investigate windows 7 permission protocols further.

    I did have the farm working on a 64bit win 7\32 bit vista system when beta testing for Rich on my home network but I just do not really know what I am doing wrong at the moment

    Boothy

  • Boothy March 31, 2011 at 8:07am

    Thanks I am at home now so it will have to wait until the morning.

    Boothy

  • Render Plus March 31, 2011 at 6:46am

    We just discovered there is a newer Render Farm you can download:

     

    Ver 251

     

     

    Try this one and see if it helps.

  • Boothy March 31, 2011 at 4:26am

    I must admit I did forget about reinstalling but have done this since still with same effect - i still have write issues on newly formed files on client computer - I think I am going to give it up as a bad job - its a real drag having to reinstall the software everytime you wish to renderfarm a new project anyway - its not a very elegant solution by any means.I am really busy and just cannot spend any more time testing.

     

    Thanks for your help

    Boothy

     

     

  • Boothy March 31, 2011 at 4:01am

    I did the first couple of tests - I may also have other write problems - I will start a fresh

    Thanks

     

    Boothy

  • Rich Hart March 31, 2011 at 3:58am

    There's a note in the render farm documentation that all machines need to be updated:

    Updating the Render Farm Software

    All participating computers must be updated before a new job can be submitted to the farm. Use the following procedure:

    • Wait for any active farm jobs to complete before beginning your update.
    • For each participating computer:
      1. If the render farm is currently running, close down the Render Farmer by right-clicking on the tray icon and selecting Close.
      2. Install the nXt Render Farm Software.
      3. Run the Render Farmer from the Start Menu. The tray icon should appear.

    Is there any chance that you haven't done that?

  • Boothy March 31, 2011 at 3:31am

    Yes it is before I start farming but the subsequent newly created folders created by renderfarmer have not got read\write on client machine .

     

    I am having problems trying to remove read only status of path folder  (I am running as administrator)- whatever I do share or permission wise it its reverting back to read only

    Boothy

  • Render Plus March 31, 2011 at 3:03am
    The common folder on the network has to be read/write from all machines involved.
  • Boothy March 31, 2011 at 2:53am

    The newly created folder properties are suggesting that they are `read only`on host machine is this correct ?

     

    Boothy

     

  • Boothy March 31, 2011 at 2:35am

    Hi Al\Rich

    Further thoughts - Before attempting renderfarming I have made sure that all permissions for the common path folder are available to everyone\all relevant users.When the new renderfarm sub folders\files are created (in this case a folder on host machine) all the attributes\permmisions have restricted use on the client machine and this may be why there is no slice allocation to client machine. I do not have enough technical network experience with win 7 to know how to get around this - in earlier versions of windows you could apply attributes\permmissions to all sub folders\files. I am not to sure with windows 7 - I may try later to play with special permissions but I am little in the dark - any ideas?

     

    Thanks

    Boothy

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