Backburner only allowing SOME servers?

[Trumble]

Hi All,

Hopefully someone out there can assist. I'm running Windows7 on my main comp, and XP on my 2 render boxes. They're all running Max 2009/Vray 1.5 SP2/BB 2008.1.

 

My problem is I assume is with BB. It will only allow 2 out of the 3 servers to be active @ any point in time. In the monitor it will show only 2, but if I start the server of the 3rd box which wasn't showing in the list, it will then show, and bum one of the ones that WAS showing before?

Thoughts?

Is running the manager and a server on the same box a problem? Before I had Windows7, I was running XP and Max2008/BB 2007.1 and everyone has getting along famously.

Any help offered is appreciated. I've done everything I can think of and nothing is working!

[BrianKitts]

Were your machines by chance built off a harddrive image or were they all fresh unique installs?

[Trumble]

It is possible 2 of the boxes were created that way. Having said that, the 2 boxes that are cooperating are the 2 that might have been clones. It seems to be the new box with windows 7 that's the problem. Even if I turn one of the other render boxes off, the main one acts like it's going to render and then gives me that awesome BB error saying the manager hasn't sent anything and is timing out.

 

The funny part is, if I just render a scene from the main box over the network, it's fine. Renders no problem.

 

I'm seriously starting to suspect that it's a w7/xp problem. Simple solution, put xp on my main one, or windows7 on the render boxes.

 

Anyone have experience with an all windows 7 setup with max/BB/vray?

[Tommy L]

I have had some bizarre network issues with w7/xp64 on the same network. My server and 2 workstations are w7 and the 7 nodes are all xp64. If workstation #1 is not on the network I have no issues. If it's on the network, I have nodes randomly drop their connection to the mapped network drive on the server. Seems to be a windows issue, not to do with BB or DR.