Backburner with DR ?

[simmsimaging]

I know there are a million threads on these subjects, but all seem to be for different problems from mine.

I just put together 4 node farm to add to my 3 station setup. I can get it to render with Backburner on any one node no problem, and I can get DR working on all nodes no problem, but I cannot seem to submit a DR job to Backburner and have it do a DR render. Is there a trick to that?

I have Max 2008 and the Vray license on my workstation, and on each node I just have Max 2008 installed but not activated (just for rendering). It's all 64 bit, the workstations are (3 of them) are XP64 Pro and the 4 new nodes are Vista Ultimate 64.

Thanks in advance!
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EDIT: found this thread:
http://www.chaosgroup.com/forums/vbu...ad.php?t=40100
This seems to be the same issue, but for some reason I cannot get Max to start at all on the new machines - it says licence expired, no 30 days grace so I can't create the config for DR. I also cannot find this file to hand-edit it: vray_dr.cfg Does that get a different name/location in Vista?

[simmsimaging]

Okay - got it sorted.

I used the portable license utility and exported my license all over the network and setup the DR list on each machine. Working fine so far now. What a pain in the ass though!

b

[vlado]

You can just copy the file with the server list - it's called vray_dr.cfg and is located in the 3ds Max plugcfg folder, which may look something like this:

C:\Documents and Settings\[username]\Local Settings\Application Data\Autodesk\3dsmax\2009 - 64bit\enu\plugcfg

Best regards,
Vlado

[simmsimaging]

Thanks - I could not find that file with a Windows search for some reason so I had no other way, but now I will know where to find it.

b