Thanks, guys, I'll delve deeper and let you know what I discover... DAN
On Thu, Apr 18, 2013 at 2:08 PM, Tim Leydecker <[email protected]> wrote: > 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! :) >> >> >>
