nisus Posted October 25, 2004 Share Posted October 25, 2004 Hi all, Since I installed the XP service pack 2, the max6 manager can only be found a few minutes, after which it cannot be reached. As a result, our whole render farm is out. Has anyone had the same problem? How did you solve it? As far as I know, all firewalls are now disabled. I also checked this option when a messagebox poud when starting the server, manager and monitor for the first time after inspattling the SP2. rgds nisus Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jeff Mottle Posted October 25, 2004 Share Posted October 25, 2004 This from the Discreet website: Although Discreet Testing and Product Support have not identified any specific problems to date, in some cases 3ds max 6 may not function as expected under Windows XP Service Pack 2. Therefore, Discreet recommends that 3ds max 6 be run under Windows XP SP1. NOTE: Discreet has identified major issues with the functionality of 3ds max 5 and older on Windows XP SP2, and support advises all clients to not install this service pack due to software stability problems that will occur. SP2 has major issues with MANY softwares. I'd uninstall and wait about 6-12 months until M$ figures out how to fix their SP or until all the software manufacturers come up with patches to work with SP2. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nisus Posted October 25, 2004 Author Share Posted October 25, 2004 Hi all, To good to be true, but I've solved the issue... Although selecting NO firewall (windows asked this when running the manager and the server!) AND afterwards setting NO firewall at all, I figured out that windows had left the firewall running... Could one believe this??? Eventually, unchecking two simple checkboxes changed hell to heaven ,-)) rgds, nisus Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mtutaj Posted October 25, 2004 Share Posted October 25, 2004 Where did you find the check boxes? I have another non max machine that is giving me fits.. Thanks Mike Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jucaro Posted October 26, 2004 Share Posted October 26, 2004 If you've installed SP2, you might as well Include 3DSMAX, Backburner Manager, Server and Monitor in the exceptions list in the Exceptions tab of the Firewall option of your connection. i.e... Network Connections--->Local Area Connection(Or whatever it is you use to connect your LAN/WAN---->Properties--->Advanced-->Windows Firewall "Settings"--> Exceptions-->Add Program... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
abicalho Posted November 3, 2004 Share Posted November 3, 2004 If you need to use MAX 5 and SP2, contact Discreet Product support, as there's a beta patch that may alleviate the issues. Alexander Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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