DR and backburner as a service

[thablanch]

Is there a way to install DR and/or Backburner as a service, so users of an other computer does not see it. For now, it is installed in the startup menu, but a few users are angry about that, they see the little Max bars on there screen, they have to close them,one by one, I mean, so much work...

Anyway, is there a way to open it in background or something

Thanks!

[instinct]

Yes you can. In the chaosgroup program group there's a shortcut to register the spawner as service. As for Backburner there's a section in the Backburner-Docs about installing as a service. Be sure to make the serives run as the right user tho, or you might end up with your slaves beeing unable to access textures/xrefs/proxies etc

Regards,
Thorsten

[thablanch]

Thks Thorsten,

[meanadam]

I don't remember why, but we had some user/service issues.... we ended up just putting the shortcut in the start menu of our "render" user. Of course you have to log-in for this way to work....

[instinct]

Using Microsoft Powertoys for XP you can create auto-logins easily, and it does the trick. But it doesnt solve the above issues.

i am currently running DR as a service and BB not (cause if BB is running as a server then you cannot check the VFB via RemoteDesktop and ppl are requesting that a lot). It is managed using a webbased console atm, tho there's a lot of trouble to be fixed.

Regards,
Thorsten

[thablanch]

Backburner works fine, but DR seeme to be an issue, it is running on the slave machines, but the machine which manage the job can not seem to connect?

[instinct]

i would guess the service is running under system user then. Wich wont work. you'd have to tweak the service's advanced settings to make it "run as a specific user"



Regards,
Thorsten

[thablanch]

It is running as a specific user (I just double-checked) , with all the networks stuff working ok, as it does with backburner

When it registers the service, is it still using the same .ini, as I am working on viz, the .ini was changed.....

[thablanch]

And one more thing, is there a way to ask theses services to start as low priority? (when I get DR to run, one day)

Thanks

[instinct]

is the service started at all ?

Regards,
Thorsten

[thablanch]

Yes, the service runs.

The message I am getting from Vray messages (at render time)

Could not connect to host xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx: No connection could be made because the targeted machine actively refused it.

When I start DR the "classic way" the machine(s) chew the job no problem.

I'll dig a little more on the low priority thing as well

Thanks Thorsten

[vlado]

When I tried DR running as a service recently, it seemed to be ok, so I am not sure what the specific problem may be. Does it manage to get 3dsmax running in slave mode in that case?

Best regards,
Vlado

[thablanch]

Vlado, think you got something here...

When I use the account of the person that is using the computer, it does manage to start viz.
When I use the account <render>, it loads Vrayspawner90, but it is not loading any 3dviz.exe..

Hummmm

edit: oops, my mistake, it does start 3dviz.exe on one of the computers, but not on the other...

[instinct]

sounds like permissions might be screwed :/

Thorsten

[thablanch]

Ok.... Kinda fixed the problem..

- Firewall permissions... simple enough ( should have done this first)
- Shut down Backburner Service ( don't know why yet, wich is a little bit of a pain, would like to have both running at the same time, but whatever...)