OK, working now. It was down to Windows firewall. Needed to set an incoming port rule on the slaves. Thought I only needed to on the master.
All good now. Thanks again, DAN On Thu, Apr 18, 2013 at 2:59 PM, Dan Yargici <danyarg...@gmail.com> wrote: > Thanks, guys, I'll delve deeper and let you know what I discover... > > DAN > > > On Thu, Apr 18, 2013 at 2:08 PM, Tim Leydecker <bauero...@gmx.de> wrote: > >> A shot in the dark: >> >> vista or windows 7 or windows 8? >> >> user profile missing administrator rights on the slave or master for the >> process? >> >> It seems the newer versions of windows have a modified network access >> mechanism, >> where in XP you would usually be fine having the same user profile and >> running >> the processes as an administrator, in the newer versions UAC and security >> limits >> for acess rights (read/write intstead full control) might lead to a hick >> up? >> >> Can you do a "run as [your administrator account]" for the xsi.bat as a >> test? >> >> I have a randomly compareable issue after moving a folder mapped to a >> network drive >> from a xp to a win7 box. XSI can´t write any new scene file into the >> project located >> there. Obviously checked for Read only attributes but no... >> >> Cheers, >> >> tim >> >> >> On 18.04.2013 12:29, Dan Yargici wrote: >> >>> It's ages since I needed to do this (or even used MR for that matter...) >>> but I'm familiar enough with it to say that I'm not a noob. I've also >>> meticulously followed the guides on >>> Stephen's blog to the letter. >>> >>> However, it doesn't work. No errors anywhere, just nothing. All >>> services are running on all machines, I can ping them all, I've triple >>> checked my rayhosts file contents and >>> location. Everything I can think of. Nothing. >>> >>> If I run Process Monitor on a slave it also shows me that nothing is >>> happening there. >>> >>> Also worth noting is that the machines do not have static IP addresses >>> (but I can ping them using their hostnames from my machine - which is the >>> master) and my Softimage takes >>> longer that usual to startup (timing out?). >>> >>> Not sure how to go about debugging this so I'm open to all ideas. >>> >>> DAN >>> p.s. Please don't question why I need to use Satellite rendering in the >>> first place - I have very good reason to! :) >>> >>> >>> >
