Backburner Error - UDP

[Tim Saunders]

For some reason one of my machines is not being succesful connecting. I am just setting up simple batch rendering, so all I am doing is opening manager, then server on the same machine, but the server gets the error below. I would be greatful for any suggestions.

 

[Tim Saunders]

No ideas? Dang.

[Crazy Homeless Guy]

I don't know the answer, but I suppose I can help troubleshoot... What do you have in your general settings? If you are using 172.0.0.1 try changing it to your computer name as seen on the network.

 

If I try and launch Manager locally, and use 127.0.0.1 I get the same error you are, but if I change it to my machine name it appears registers without a problem.

[Tim Saunders]

Strange, I somehow disabled "automatically search" By turning that back on, it worked fine.

 

Now I can't get my vray spawner to start on that particular machine. I tell you man, sometimes configuring network rendering is much more of a headache than it's worth.

[Crazy Homeless Guy]

I wouldn't be able to get my job done with out Backburner and Spawners. ....I do think Backburner is due for an upgrade though. Something that has more options, and more controls. Sure, I could buy a more advanced system, but it is often difficult enough to get things through corporate.

[Tim Saunders]

Have you ever had a problem like that where spawner won't start? It doesn't even try.

 

I can log in as a local admin, and it works just fine. but when I log in as a regular network user spawner wont start.

[Crazy Homeless Guy]

Not that I can remember. I keep all of the renderfarm machines setup with a special account called Sf.Viz. This account has 2 shortcuts in the startup directory. The first launches Backburner Server, and the second points to the 'vrayspawner2011.exe' in the Max root directory.

 

I run everything from a standard user account with base privledges. No admin rights.

 

Out of curiosity, is your farm machine able to see the Vray license file without a problem?

[Tim Saunders]

Yes, because it is a full working workstation, with it's own local dongle.

[Tim Saunders]

I don't think the first issue is quite resolved. I just tried to set up three other boxes, and all three of them have the same issue as my first post. I am logged on as an administrator AND I have tried opening bb, with localhost, specific local computer name and my host computer's name. Neither of those ways do anything different.

 

If I specify the local ip address in both the server and manager, I get an error that says, unable to bind: The requested address is not valid in its context. (0x2741) Is the application already running?

 

Getting real frustrated. I have like tripple the power waiting for my use, but I can't even use it.

[Crazy Homeless Guy]

I don't think we change anything in Manager. We just launch it on a dedicated machine, which is now actually a virtual machine. Then we launch Server and type in the computer name that houses the Manager.

[Tim Saunders]

Yeah, I tried the same thing. No luck. BB server says unable to bind.

[artrenderinfo]

Simply change at BackBurner SERVER in General Settings at server name, instead of name use IP.

In my case I was using 12-Core-PC and after this error I've changed to 192.168.1.130 (local server IP - run/cmd->ipconfig)

[ahmetelginoz]

Check your computer name and match it on the setting screen of backburner. On my case, I changed the name of the computer (store name was garbage) but the name in server settings was the old name because I installed backburner before changing the name. Backburner server remembers the old name, and it takes a while to figure out because everybody focuses on the automatic search field.

 

I hope this resolves your problem