Backburner 2012.1 and windows 7 issue

[Shaun Hamm]

First of all, i've done extensive forum searching and googling and haven't found the specific problem i'm having so here it is.

 

Render farm consists of backburner 2012.1 and max 2012 64 bit with SP2.

 

Manager is on a winxp system.

 

All winxp machines render fine on the server. Our newest computer running win7 shows up on monitor but status is listed as unavailable. I've tried running server as administrator and that still doesn't help.

 

Any suggestions on how to get the win7 machine to show on up on monitor as a usuable server would be greatly appreciated.

 

Thanks,

 

UPDATE:

 

reverted to BB2008.1...win 7 still didn't show up in monitor so i moved manager to another computer and now everything is visible and works. Been meaning to revert to 2008 anyways.

Edited November 22, 2011 by shaunph78

[Shaun Hamm]

also, disabling Ipv6 on the win7 machine doesn't seem to help either.

[Matt McDonald]

Do you have the firewall completely disabled in the Win7 machine? That Windows7 firewall can be a real PITA!

[Shaun Hamm]

Do you have the firewall completely disabled in the Win7 machine? That Windows7 firewall can be a real PITA!

 

Firewall was disabled previously...updated the original post with my workaround.

[MegaPixel]

Try and set your Win7 user account sensitivity controls to "Low" otherwise the server executable gets blocked before it can even start.

[Tommy L]

My advice would be bite the bullet and upgrade everything to the same win7 OS. I struggled for over a year with W7 workstations and server and just XP64 on the nodes. Now Im no networking whizz, but jeez did kI have problems. I must have been working 6 workarounds, wasnt just render issues either, all sorts of network wierdness. Since putting W7 on everything its plain sailing.