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Hey Everyone,
Having major issues setting up DR across my two workstations.
If I run DR as the Spawner App; the slave will load the scene, Log informs me that it's starting render, Then receives a 'Render Completed' message and then a warning saying 'Render Host is not responding'.
If I run DR as the Service; I get the 'No Connection could be made because the target machine actively refused it'
Here's my set-up:
- Two HP Z workstations, both dual xeon with plenty of ram
- Gigabit Network Switch
- Max 2015 with all services packs and extensions (1 Subscription Licence)
- Vray 3.2 (1 Workstation & 1 Render Node Licence)
- Files stored on my main machine with shared folders
Here are the checks I carried out:
- Checked the Slave can see all the necessary files and also has read/write access (The Drives are Shared amongst the WorkGroup).
- Vray Licence Server is running as a service on main Workstation
- My Workstation can see the slave in DR Settings (Resolved Servers too)
- My Slave can see the Vray Licence and I've ensured that the machine will run a Backburner job as instructed in the install notes.
- Made sure the slave machine can render standalone.
- Ensured that a 'Slave' user with identical passwords exists on both machines (Both Admin Rights)
- Checked the Vray Licence HTTP and it tells me that when Distributing both the Workstation and Render Node Licence are being used by different IP addresses
- Just attempting to render a simple scene, no X-Refs etc. Only 1 Texture present.
Attempted solutions:
- Checked all paths are UNC (Although I've had to do this manually as 'Convert Paths to UNC' in Asset Tracking and Ticking 'Use UNC Paths' in Preferences doesn't seem to work? Could this be the fault?)
- Disabled all firewalls
- Ensured that only 1 version of Max is present
- Upgraded from Vray 3.1 to 3.2 and removed previous install
- Updated WiBu Drivers to latest version
- Checked that Backburner is the same version as Max (2015)
- Checked that the Dongle isn't in a USB 3.0 slot and also moved it to a different slot
I've set up DR before in previous studios and although it's been a pain, normally we've got it working sooner or later, but this time I'm really tearing my hair out.
Please help before I throw either myself or an expensive piece of hardware through the nearest window.
I will happily give you a kidney or left leg (I can't give you my right leg as I need that to kick the machines!) if someone helps me solve this.
[DISCLAIMER - Only Digital representation of my body parts will be used a payment]
Vlado, any ideas? Should I post/send the Log File?
Thanks,
Kyle
Having major issues setting up DR across my two workstations.
If I run DR as the Spawner App; the slave will load the scene, Log informs me that it's starting render, Then receives a 'Render Completed' message and then a warning saying 'Render Host is not responding'.
If I run DR as the Service; I get the 'No Connection could be made because the target machine actively refused it'
Here's my set-up:
- Two HP Z workstations, both dual xeon with plenty of ram
- Gigabit Network Switch
- Max 2015 with all services packs and extensions (1 Subscription Licence)
- Vray 3.2 (1 Workstation & 1 Render Node Licence)
- Files stored on my main machine with shared folders
Here are the checks I carried out:
- Checked the Slave can see all the necessary files and also has read/write access (The Drives are Shared amongst the WorkGroup).
- Vray Licence Server is running as a service on main Workstation
- My Workstation can see the slave in DR Settings (Resolved Servers too)
- My Slave can see the Vray Licence and I've ensured that the machine will run a Backburner job as instructed in the install notes.
- Made sure the slave machine can render standalone.
- Ensured that a 'Slave' user with identical passwords exists on both machines (Both Admin Rights)
- Checked the Vray Licence HTTP and it tells me that when Distributing both the Workstation and Render Node Licence are being used by different IP addresses
- Just attempting to render a simple scene, no X-Refs etc. Only 1 Texture present.
Attempted solutions:
- Checked all paths are UNC (Although I've had to do this manually as 'Convert Paths to UNC' in Asset Tracking and Ticking 'Use UNC Paths' in Preferences doesn't seem to work? Could this be the fault?)
- Disabled all firewalls
- Ensured that only 1 version of Max is present
- Upgraded from Vray 3.1 to 3.2 and removed previous install
- Updated WiBu Drivers to latest version
- Checked that Backburner is the same version as Max (2015)
- Checked that the Dongle isn't in a USB 3.0 slot and also moved it to a different slot
I've set up DR before in previous studios and although it's been a pain, normally we've got it working sooner or later, but this time I'm really tearing my hair out.
Please help before I throw either myself or an expensive piece of hardware through the nearest window.
I will happily give you a kidney or left leg (I can't give you my right leg as I need that to kick the machines!) if someone helps me solve this.
[DISCLAIMER - Only Digital representation of my body parts will be used a payment]
Vlado, any ideas? Should I post/send the Log File?
Thanks,
Kyle
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