I’m struggling how to make backburner 2012 work. It can only use ipv6 so I guess my problems comes from it.
wrt610N router and Linksys WUSB600N wifi card on my workstation, rendernode is on cable so no problem there.
So on renderfarm I can start manager, server and all seems ok. But on my workstation I can’s connect to manager (can’t even start it on my machine, it only runs on renderfarm) and server doesn’t connect. On manager side It seems that it can see my wrokstation but can;t connect to it.
one of errors on server side: ERR Error sending on UDP: An address incompatible with the requested protocol was used. (0x273f).
and the rest of the log:
“2011/05/02 13:20:09 WRN Obsolete plugin C:\Program Files\Autodesk\3ds Max 2012\max64.task found. Not loaded.
2011/05/02 13:20:09 WRN Obsolete plugin C:\Program Files\Autodesk\3ds Max 2012\max64_ipv6.task found. Not loaded.
2011/05/02 13:20:09 INF <AdapterInfo>
2011/05/02 13:20:09 INF <Name>Autodesk 3ds Max 2012 (64-bit)</Name>
2011/05/02 13:20:09 INF <Version>300</Version>
2011/05/02 13:20:09 INF <Description>Autodesk 3ds Max 2012 (64-bit) Renderer Adapter</Description>
2011/05/02 13:20:09 INF </AdapterInfo>
2011/05/02 13:20:09 WRN Obsolete plugin C:\Program Files\Autodesk\3ds Max 2012\Network_IPV6\max_server_ipv6.task found. Not loaded.
2011/05/02 13:20:09 WRN Obsolete plugin C:\Program Files\Autodesk\3ds Max 2012\Network\max_server32.task found. Not loaded.
2011/05/02 13:20:09 INF <AdapterInfo>
2011/05/02 13:20:09 INF <Name>Command Line Tool</Name>
2011/05/02 13:20:09 INF <Version>300</Version>
2011/05/02 13:20:09 INF <Description>Command Job Adapter v2012</Description>
2011/05/02 13:20:09 INF </AdapterInfo>
2011/05/02 13:20:09 INF Starting backburner Server
2011/05/02 13:20:09 INF Loading plugin: Autodesk 3ds Max 2012 (64-bit) Renderer Adapter from Backburner Adapter Plugin
2011/05/02 13:20:09 INF Loading plugin: Command Job Adapter v2012 from Backburner Adapter Plugin
2011/05/02 13:20:14 INF Looking for a manager using [ff02::1]:3234
2011/05/02 13:20:24 INF Looking for a manager using [ff02::1]:3234
Something is really messed up! I tried disable IPv4 on my machine but then I can’t connect to router !
And from what I search on internet it shoudl work without the problem with ipv6.
Hi Luxx,
I have had to go back to using backburner from 3dsmax 2011 and so far it is working nicely with 2012.
Its a big hassle that it doesnt work straight out of the box but hey its 3dsmax
Yeah I couldnt connect to the manager.
I was trying to connect a windows 7 machine to a xp64 machine and it obviously doesnt work mixing ipv6 and ipv4!
solvved. In order to disable this “6to4 Tunnel” you need to go to device manager-->View-->Show hidden devices. Then expand the network adapters and disable “Microsoft 6to4 adapter”.
I have no idea why this tunnel has been created or why the BB manager uses it.
i personally dont hav problems connecting servers to manager…that works ok with a few “obsolete” warnings
BUT
what i get is a VRAY licence pick up issue on the server station through backburner
it hangs on the transforming vertices, and then the job restarts because it coudl not find licence
right…so i had to completely turn off windows firewall in order to make everythign work…but i still get so many WRN sign in the BB…anyway…installed 2011 back today..tired of all the hustle…will wait until everyting settles and all the plugs are out
I had quite the same problem with BB, and now i get the " No plugin available to handle job" error message
damn i am getting crazy with this upgrade, or should i say downgrade !
yes but this solution is only to install 3dsmax2012 without backburner… is it right??
Edit: testing this, the installer reinstall max and also backburner.
Anyway it doesn’t work. I reinstalled the backburner provided with max2011 and it works
We are having the same problem. I can start the Backburner server on all of my render nodes, and even my local computer, and they find the manager just fine. But when I try to send a rendering to the network it won’t let me connect, it only brings up an error saying ‘Manager not found’ when I click the ‘Connect’ button. It’s good to hear that some of you have already found a work-around by installing the old Backburner, what a hassle when you have pressing jobs that need to get done.
We got our render servers to work again by:
1) Uninstalling Backburner 2012
2) Reinstall Backburner 2008 from the Max 2011 disk
---Now if you try to send a network render at this point you will get some sort of missing or cannot find configuration file error. I don’t remember the exact wording of the error. So then… this was the fix on my Win 7 64-bit machine…
3) Open the C:>users>(user name)>AppData>Local>Autodesk>3dsMax>2012 - 64bit>enu>Backburner folder, and replace the Backburner.xml file with an older Backburner.xml file. I also replaced the xml file in the ‘2011 - 64bit’ folder as well, because I noticed it had a more recent date than the old 2011 xml file.
*** This worked because we had copied and renamed the ‘2011 - 64bit’ folder before installing the 2012 version, so we had the old xml file. Also, the AppData is hidden by default, so unhide all folders to see it.
I know that’s a lot of junk to go through, hope this makes sense.
