server connection limitation

[arobbert]

I know this has been covered before but I can’t seem to get it to work.

I recently added some nodes to my network. My total number is 11. I use vray 1.09. I store my irradiance maps and textures on one computer (XP pro sp1). I own two seats of Vray. Some of the nodes start to drop textures and irradiance maps as soon as I add the 11th node. All of the nodes are XP pro sp2. I know there is a limitation of 10 connections for XP pro. Do I need to switch to a different OS for my server to get more connections so all my nodes will see the maps? I tried the registry edit from some of the earlier posts and it didn’t work.

Is it possible that this is the 10 node limit per vray seat? I own two seats can they both be used on one machine to give a total of 20 nodes?

[mike.edel]

sounds like you are running into the windows connection limit

you could either switch to a windows server os or to linux + samba (=cheaper) for storing the maps

are you using backburner? the manager should also run on a machine without the connection limit - i have heard from several sources that it is possible to run the manager using wine (windows emulation) under linux, too - getting around the conn. limit

from what i know, there is no direct enforced node limit inside vray

[tammo]

there is a connection limit hack for windows on the net.
it didnt work on my x64 pcs but should work on normal windows.

[arobbert]

Is anyone using this XP hack with success?

[instinct]

I tried it at home a while back and it worked fine. i never tried it for use with rendering tho (tho i´d love to have the farm at home to test it :P)

Thorsten

[redi]

We had the same problem at work and switched to linux with samba server. It works perfectly, no problem.