Network rendering issue. connection time out.

[aristocratic3d]

HI,

I recently bought four more new pcs, one of them are AMD but running smoothly with other i7 3770.

 

The problem is one of the i7 that is in connection with my home-group is not working only when it renders as slave.

 

It shows up in network. I can access from my workstation. can transfer files. can access through "team viewer (Lan)" In another word I can do everything except Distributed rendering. it says "connection time out" when rendering.

 

What can be there problem there?

 

Please help.

 

Thanks!

Abdullah

[Tommy L]

Sounds like a permissions issue...

Stuff like this can drive you crazy, so easiest way around is to clone a good machine's hard drive.

Use 'Macrium', its freeware adn extremely effective. Use it to clone the drive adn then just change the login/ID stuff on thenmachine and your good to go.

I recently bought 6 new nodes and cloned all 6 drives. Boy, had I been wasting my time in the past installing everything from scratch.

Only thing to look out for is you have to delete a backburner .ini config file, everything else is slick. if you end up doing this let me know and Ill dig up the file needs deleting.

 

 

 

 

HI,

I recently bought four more new pcs, one of them are AMD but running smoothly with other i7 3770.

 

The problem is one of the i7 that is in connection with my home-group is not working only when it renders as slave.

 

It shows up in network. I can access from my workstation. can transfer files. can access through "team viewer (Lan)" In another word I can do everything except Distributed rendering. it says "connection time out" when rendering.

 

What can be there problem there?

 

Please help.

 

Thanks!

Abdullah

[aristocratic3d]

HI,

Thanks for the reply.

I wanted to tell you about the problem. Just did not want to annoy you. thought some one else here could help me out.

 

Anyway,

 

The same problem is taking place for both max 2011 and 2012 (Vray distributed rendering).

I formatted my hard-drive (reinstalled everything) but same problem.

I did not find any file named "backburner.ini" !

 

Do you still think that simply cloning hard-drive will work for my case?

 

Thanks again for great help.

[Tommy L]

Cloning should work fine. You are taking a setup that works and making another one...

Once you get everything set up you should find that DR works fine but Backburner kicks the node. Thats because the clone has the setup from the other node, so the backburner slave id is in conflict with another machine. Other than that its flawless.

Its not an .ini, its backburner.xml

 

HI,

Thanks for the reply.

I wanted to tell you about the problem. Just did not want to annoy you. thought some one else here could help me out.

 

Anyway,

 

The same problem is taking place for both max 2011 and 2012 (Vray distributed rendering).

I formatted my hard-drive (reinstalled everything) but same problem.

I did not find any file named "backburner.ini" !

 

Do you still think that simply cloning hard-drive will work for my case?

 

Thanks again for great help.

[Jason Matthews]

Make sure that the computer is in the correct domain. I had that issue, even though I could see the drive via the other machines.

[aristocratic3d]

The problems are solved partly. The problem that still not solved is identified. the problem is when I restart the computers all my slave return back to a public network by default. I just have to bring them into the home-group every day morning.

 

Is there any solution for this? can I permanently set them to stay in home-group?

 

Thanks for all the help.

Edited July 21, 2013 by aristocratic3d
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[Jason Matthews]

That is an odd problem. I googled this http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2524478. Se eif this will fix it.

[aristocratic3d]

HI, Thanks for all of your help.

The problem is solved. I had to make changes in local security policy of windows. It works fine now.

 

Thanks!