Network rendering error message

[Dan J]

Hi,

 

I'm trying to set up network rendering with the DHCP setup.

My network is working. Both computers talk to each other and I can tranfer files back and forth.

I have the manager and servers set up on both machine and they see each other fine. When I go to send something to net render and I try to connect to manager I get an error message stating "connection refused- service not installed on host machine"

I went back through all the help topics and check both machines settings, but I'm not sure what the problem is.

Anyone know what I'm forgetting?

Thanks for the help.

 

Dan

[quizzy]

well, you have to run the backburner manager on the computer that you are submitting the job with

[Dan J]

Quizzy,

 

Thanks for the reply. I'm on Viz 4, so there isn't any mention of "Back burner" in the doc's. I think that's a new Max6 utility. Any other suggestions?

 

Dan

[David Knourek]

Hey Dan,

 

Backburner is just a new name for the network rendering manager/server. Sorry Quizzy, I dont mean to step on any toes but the Manager can be installed on either machine and it should work. Each machine you want to render with although must be running the Server as a service or application. If it doesnt work as a service try uninstalling the service and run the manager application(start-programs-...). Also make sure if you are running any firewall software like zonealarm, Nortion IS... ect. that you give at least local network access to max, manager and the server application.

 

Hope that helps a little.

 

-dave

[Dan J]

David,

 

I thought Backburner was the new name for the old network manager, of course that was on and running and worked fine.

The problem was in the firewall software. I added the server, manager and que manager to the list and its working great. Now I just need to repath everything and get this baby rendering.

 

Thanks a bunch David!