Automatic launch of Backburner's server

[Bugga_Guy]

We have about 30 computers in our office.

 

Five of the computers are strickly used for 24 hour rendering machines, The other 25 are used by people in the office but are free to be used for rendering at night, lunches and on weekends.

 

Currently we have a set up that I have to log into a ghost account so that will launch the backburners "server" and can start rendering frames no problems. However this means I have to goto all the computers and log in to 25 different computers which is a big waste of time..

 

Is there a way to automatically launch a backburner server on everyones computer without having to interfere if someone is working - like a script when I run it - it turns on all the backburner server on everyones comptuer automatically? or something like this?

 

I am curious how others who uses working computers in an office cope in using backburner and not having to annoy anyone?

[artrender]

run serversvc -i in a command prompt window for each of the machines.

This is in the backburner folder on each computer.

This will install the server.exe as a service on each machine so that it is always resident as one of the processes. Then you just set the weekly

scheduler in the monitor.exe program for each machine to only run during

certain times of the day (like from 6pm - 6am for instance). This information should be available in the help

file for backburner? You may have to setup certain user rights for this

service on each machine so that it runs under a certain login name. Like

the ghost account that you are using right now for the 5 dedicated machines. Your network administrator should be able to help you out with

it from here onwards!

 

 

 

Arthur

[Wayne Harney]

I use this method that works really slick. It starts backburner when a user logs out and starts it when they login. Basically just have them log out at the end of the day instead of shut down.

 

Install backburner as a service "serversvc -i" from the backburner folder in dos. I went into administrative tools>services and changed backburner to manual instead of automatic but I don't know if that makes any difference. Do this exactly...

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You'll start by creating two batch files.

 

Open a text editor such as Notepad and enter the following line:

net start backburner_srv_200

Save this as a text file named Netstart_BK_Server.bat.

 

Create a new file containing the following line:

net stop backburner_srv_200

Save this as a text file named Netstop_BK_Server.bat.

 

Next, you'll to edit the logon and logoff policy for the system.

Browse to the c:\WINNT\system32 directory and find gpedit.msc.

This is the file that edits and manages the Group Policy for the system.

Right-click the file and then choose Open.

The Group Policy dialog appears.

In the dialog, expand User Configuration > Windows Settings, and then click

Scripts (Logon/Logoff).

The right-hand pane lists Logon and Logoff.

In the right pane, right-click Logon and choose Properties.

In the Properties dialog, click Add, click Browse, and browse to the

Netstop_BK_Server.bat file you created. Click OK twice to close the Logon Properties dialog.

 

Similarly, open the Properties dialog for Logoff and specify the Netstart_BK_Server.bat file.

Close the Group Policy dialog.

 

You have now set up the system to stop the backburner service at any user logon, and to start it at any user logoff.

 

Lastly go to Adminstrative Tools > Services and go to the properties of the backburner service. In the "Log On" tab, check "this account" instead of "local system acct". Specify administrator with the administrator password. This allows backburner to access your network resouces when logged out of windows.

[mtutaj]

thanks wayne, thats what I've been looking for the past few months.

 

Thanks again, Going to try to get it up and running this weekend.

 

Mike