Problem with obtaining License

[birdman67]

I have two machines (let's call them #1 and #2). I bought the most recent version of Vray, installed it on #1 with the dongle, and slaved #2. Both are networked, BB works fine both ways with scanline; the machines are properly talking to each other. Rendering on #1 with Vray works fine, but I get the "...could not obtain a license" on #2. Could someone please tell me what these settings should be("Edit/set license server information"), on each machine? I did what the installation guide said, but I just can't get this to work...maybe I'm missing something. Any help would be very much appreciated!!

[vlado]

Basically, the Edit/set licence server information should contain the IP address of the machine where the V-Ray license server is running with the dongle;

Are you able to connect to the V-Ray license server from the other machines with a web-browser - that is, on the slave, you open Internet explorer and type "http://servermachine:30304" without the quotes where servermachine is the IP of the machine where the license server is running, what do you get?

Best regards,
Vlado

[birdman67]

Yes, the browser displays the info of the host computer (the exact same info as displayed on the host when I open the browser there):

Render licenses: Total=1, engaged=0, Free=1
Interface licenses: Total=1, engaged=1, Free=0
Network=10000, DR=10

Do I need to input the "Online authorization settings" as well? The guide never mentioned it.

[vlado]

There is no need to enter anything in the Online section. Other things to try:

1) open 3ds Max on the slave (if it has a registered 3ds max), assign V-Ray as the renderer and try to render an empty scene. What kind of error do you get in the V-Ray messages window?
2) open a command prompt (select Start menu > Run... and type "cmd" without the quotes and press Enter), and then type in the command prompt this:

telnet [i]serverip[/i] 30304

where serverip is the IP address of the server; what happens at that point?

Best regards,
Vlado

[birdman67]

OMG, I fixed it...I'm not even going to say what I was doing wrong....too embarrassing! Thanks for your help

[vlado]

Heh, ok; glad it's working now

Best regards,
Vlado

[deneb26]

well it's clear enough to me, you left the render settings dialog open on the first machine, don't you =)

[birdman67]

I told you it was embarrassing! But let me ask you a question now that we're on it again...every once in a while I can render on both machines at the same time, but not always...why is that?

[bis]

There is no need to enter anything in the Online section. Other things to try:

1) open 3ds Max on the slave (if it has a registered 3ds max), assign V-Ray as the renderer and try to render an empty scene. What kind of error do you get in the V-Ray messages window?
2) open a command prompt (select Start menu > Run... and type "cmd" without the quotes and press Enter), and then type in the command prompt this:

telnet [i]serverip[/i] 30304

where serverip is the IP address of the server; what happens at that point?

Best regards,
Vlado

Hello Vlado,
I check all your option, but I obtin this message:
[2008/Feb/12|22:54:29] Server 192.168.1.7: Scene loaded; starting render.
[2008/Feb/12|22:54:29] Server 192.168.1.3: Scene loaded; starting render.
[2008/Feb/12|22:54:29] Server 192.168.1.7: Render completed.
[2008/Feb/12|22:54:30] Server 192.168.1.3: Render completed.
[2008/Feb/12|22:54:33] Threads completed
[2008/Feb/12|22:54:33] Merging light cache passes.
[2008/Feb/12|22:54:33] Light cache contains 2642 samples.
[2008/Feb/12|22:54:33] Light cache samples collected; compiling lookup tree.
[2008/Feb/12|22:54:33] Prefiltering light cache.
[2008/Feb/12|22:54:33] 1 interpolation maps registered
[2008/Feb/12|22:54:33] Rendering interpolation maps with minRate=-3 and maxRate=0
[2008/Feb/12|22:54:33] Setting up 4 thread(s)
[2008/Feb/12|22:54:45] warning: Render host post3 (192.168.1.3) is not responding
[2008/Feb/12|22:54:50] warning: Render host adil (192.168.1.7) is not responding


I've stopped all firewall.
Help!

[deneb26]

to birdman67: this happens here from time to time, too. but actually this shouldn't be, as one license is only for one GUI at a time.

[vlado]

@bis - you will need to look at the log files on the slave machines to see why they refused to render.

Best regards,
Vlado