A shot in the dark: vista or windows 7 or windows 8?
user profile missing administrator rights on the slave or master for the process? It seems the newer versions of windows have a modified network access mechanism, where in XP you would usually be fine having the same user profile and running the processes as an administrator, in the newer versions UAC and security limits for acess rights (read/write intstead full control) might lead to a hick up? Can you do a "run as [your administrator account]" for the xsi.bat as a test? I have a randomly compareable issue after moving a folder mapped to a network drive from a xp to a win7 box. XSI can´t write any new scene file into the project located there. Obviously checked for Read only attributes but no... Cheers, tim On 18.04.2013 12:29, Dan Yargici wrote:
It's ages since I needed to do this (or even used MR for that matter...) but I'm familiar enough with it to say that I'm not a noob. I've also meticulously followed the guides on Stephen's blog to the letter. However, it doesn't work. No errors anywhere, just nothing. All services are running on all machines, I can ping them all, I've triple checked my rayhosts file contents and location. Everything I can think of. Nothing. If I run Process Monitor on a slave it also shows me that nothing is happening there. Also worth noting is that the machines do not have static IP addresses (but I can ping them using their hostnames from my machine - which is the master) and my Softimage takes longer that usual to startup (timing out?). Not sure how to go about debugging this so I'm open to all ideas. DAN p.s. Please don't question why I need to use Satellite rendering in the first place - I have very good reason to! :)
