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Satellite rendering debugging?

Satellite rendering debugging?

2004-06-10       - By Bruce Priebe

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Well, that just gives me more information to work with.

Since the screen clears that means it is making contact with the satellite
machine, and is probably not a network error. It is trying to run the
raysatxsi4_0.bat file on the satellite machine. And is getting an Access Denied
.

What are the security settings on the XSI_4.0 directory (On the satellite
machine)? Is it open to everybody, or is it restricted?

Bruce Priebe
Softimage/Avid
Softimage|XSI Technical Support
& Jaunty Young Brainiac
brucep@(protected)
http://www.softimage.com/Support/XSI
Have you used the Knowledgebase today?

-- --Original Message-- --
From: owner-xsi@(protected) [mailto:owner-xsi@(protected)]On Behalf Of Dan
Yargici
Sent: Thursday, June 10, 2004 1:58 PM
To: XSI@(protected)
Subject: Re: Satellite rendering debugging?



>>It shouldn't be a 2000 vs XP thing. My machine is 2000, and my Satellite
machine is XP and it is working fine.

OK, thanks.

Screen clears, then the message... bad?

DAN


-- -- Original Message -- --
From: Bruce  <mailto:brucep@(protected)> Priebe
To: XSI@(protected)
Sent: Thursday, June 10, 2004 8:56 PM
Subject: RE: Satellite rendering debugging?

It shouldn't be a 2000 vs XP thing. My machine is 2000, and my Satellite
machine is XP and it is working fine.

How does the error appear when you telnet? Like this?
U:\>telnet localhost 7009
Connecting To localhost...Could not open a connection to host on port 7009 :
Access Denied

Or does the screen clear before you get the access denied message?

Bruce Priebe
Softimage/Avid
Softimage|XSI Technical Support
& Jaunty Young Brainiac
brucep@(protected)
http://www.softimage.com/Support/XSI
Have you used the Knowledgebase today?

-- --Original Message-- --
From: owner-xsi@(protected) [mailto:owner-xsi@(protected)]On Behalf Of Dan
Yargici
Sent: Thursday, June 10, 2004 1:03 PM
To: XSI@(protected)
Subject: Re: Satellite rendering debugging?


OK, I got the syntax now, but I'm getting an access denied.  Like I said, could
it be a win2k -> XP thing?  I VNC'd into the render nodes and their Telnet
service is disabled.  I tried enabling and starting one anyway, but still the
same 'Access Denied' response from telnet.

On a side note - would it be possible to setup a rayhosts manager inside
NetView?  Like an on/off switch, or a load of checkboxes for different machines
... Although I guess you'd still have to restart XSI to see the changes... hmmmm
.....

DAN


-- -- Original Message -- --
From: Bruce  <mailto:brucep@(protected)> Priebe
To: XSI@(protected)
Sent: Thursday, June 10, 2004 7:52 PM
Subject: RE: Satellite rendering debugging?

You shouldn't have to change the Satellite Service. It should run fine as the
local System.

As for telneting to the satellite port how are you doing it? The format
mentioned by Dan is incorrect.

telnet <hostname> <port number> is the way it is done.
<hostname>:<port number> is for the .ray3host file, not telnet from the command
prompt.

When telneting to a machine that has the satellite service running, you should
connect, but you shouldn't get a response back.

Bruce Priebe
Softimage/Avid
Softimage|XSI Technical Support
& Jaunty Young Brainiac
brucep@(protected)
http://www.softimage.com/Support/XSI
Have you used the Knowledgebase today?

-- --Original Message-- --
From: owner-xsi@(protected) [mailto:owner-xsi@(protected)]On Behalf Of
Sandy Sutherland
Sent: Thursday, June 10, 2004 10:51 AM
To: XSI@(protected)
Subject: Re: Satellite rendering debugging?


OK - just did some testing, and found that the satellite services were not
running  - they need to have login setups, using the same login as your XSI (
)runnable and working) installations are - you can set this up using the
services manager under control panels - administrative tools!

Make sense???

Cheers

S.

-- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- -----
Sandy Sutherland  Digital Doodeller/Technical Director
The Refinery (Cape)  http://www.refinery.co.za
mailto:sandy@(protected)
(P) (+27 21) 480 3132  (F) (+27 21) 480 3101
-- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- -----

-- -- Original Message -- --
From: Dan  <mailto:dan@(protected)> Yargici
To: XSI@(protected)
Sent: Thursday, June 10, 2004 3:39 PM
Subject: Re: Satellite rendering debugging?

Cheers for the help Sandy,

OK the way I have our system setup is this:

2 Workstations Win2k  XSI4 Adv.
10 Renderboxes WinXP - Waiting for their lics, but I'm assuming the satellite
tokens are taken from the Adv. lics. so for this test they don't need their own
lics.

All machines share one setenv.bat file on the server to make administration a
little easier for certain things (Moving the license server for example).  In
this Setenv.bat the .ray3hosts location is set to c:\Softimage and any other
instances of ray*hosts files on all machines have been removed.  In fact I
think my machine is the only one with a .ray3hosts file out of all of them.  In
the .ray3hosts file I've declared all the slaves as IP adresses (to be safe)
followed by :7007 the default port for satellite rendering.  Now.  When I type
Telnet 192.0.0.42:7007 (correct syntax for a port?  it doesn't throw any errors
..)  for example I get:

Could not open a connection to host on port 23 : Connect failed

I think this might be some kind of Win2k -> WinXP telnet issue, mind.  The
machines can definately see each other...

Anyways, still no sooooper fast distributed fun and games.... :(


-- -- Original Message -- --
From: Sandy Sutherland <mailto:sandy@(protected)>  
To: XSI@(protected)
Sent: Thursday, June 10, 2004 3:31 PM
Subject: Re: Satellite rendering debugging?

Well as long as your 'other' machines can run XSI i.e. get licenses, then setup
a rayhost file WITH port numbers - these you can get from your services file,
or write them down when you install XSI on each machine - once you have done
this, try and telnet into each machine using these port numbers - if telnet
gives you errors, then you have the wrong port number, if it just dissapears,
as with me - then bingo, you are onto a good start!  Run XSI and start a render
with verbose on, you should see the other machines returning percentage renders
!!!

S.

-- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- -----
Sandy Sutherland  Digital Doodeller/Technical Director
The Refinery (Cape)  http://www.refinery.co.za
mailto:sandy@(protected)
(P) (+27 21) 480 3132  (F) (+27 21) 480 3101
-- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- -----

-- -- Original Message -- --
From: Dan  <mailto:dan@(protected)> Yargici
To: XSI@(protected)
Sent: Thursday, June 10, 2004 1:53 PM
Subject: Satellite rendering debugging?

Anyone here got their satellite rendering working?  I'm not a total newbie to
this, and I managed to get distributed rendering working in earlier versions,
but I'm having no luck today....

Anything I should be aware of before I delve deeper?

As we have no standalone MR lics it's hard to diagnose without being able to
run ray3 -v to check the status of the slaves.... I noticed the Raysat.exe
executable but after sifting through the -h output there appears to be no
diagnostic switches to try... -v just returns MentalRay copyright info.... :-/

Thanks,

DAN



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<DIV><SPAN class=762142018-10062004><FONT face=Tahoma color=#0000ff>Well, that
just gives me more information to work with.</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=762142018-10062004><FONT face=Tahoma
color=#0000ff></FONT></SPAN>&nbsp;</DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=762142018-10062004><FONT face=Tahoma color=#0000ff>Since the
screen clears that means it is making contact with the satellite machine, and
is
probably not a network error. It is trying to run the raysatxsi4_0.bat file on
the satellite machine. And is getting an Access Denied.</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=762142018-10062004><FONT face=Tahoma
color=#0000ff></FONT></SPAN>&nbsp;</DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=762142018-10062004><FONT face=Tahoma color=#0000ff>What are
the
security settings on the XSI_4.0 directory (On the satellite machine)? Is it
open to everybody, or is it restricted?</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<P><FONT face="Times New Roman" color=#800080>Bruce Priebe</FONT> <BR><FONT
face="Comic Sans MS" color=#800080>Softimage/</FONT><FONT face="MS Serif"
color=#000080>Avid</FONT> <BR><FONT face="Times New Roman"
color=#800080>Softimage|XSI Technical Support</FONT> <BR><FONT
face="Times New Roman" color=#800080>&amp; Jaunty Young Brainiac</FONT>
<BR><FONT face="Times New Roman" color=#800080>brucep@(protected)</FONT>
<BR><U><FONT face="Times New Roman" color=#0000ff><A
href="http://www.softimage.com/Support/XSI"
target=_blank>http://www.softimage.com/Support/XSI</A></FONT></U> <BR><B><FONT
face="Times New Roman" color=#800080>Have you used the Knowledgebase
today?</FONT></B> </P>
<BLOCKQUOTE dir=ltr style="MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px">
 <DIV class=OutlookMessageHeader dir=ltr align=left><FONT face=Tahoma
 size=2>-- --Original Message-- --<BR><B>From:</B> owner-xsi@(protected)
 [mailto:owner-xsi@(protected)]<B>On Behalf Of </B>Dan
 Yargici<BR><B>Sent:</B> Thursday, June 10, 2004 1:58 PM<BR><B>To:</B>
 XSI@(protected)<BR><B>Subject:</B> Re: Satellite rendering
 debugging?<BR><BR></FONT></DIV>
 <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>
 <DIV><SPAN class=611075417-10062004><FONT face=Tahoma color=#0000ff>&gt;&gt
;It
 shouldn't be a 2000 vs XP thing. My machine is 2000, and my Satellite machine
 is XP and it is working fine.</FONT></SPAN></DIV></FONT></DIV>
 <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT>&nbsp;</DIV>
 <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>OK, thanks.</FONT></DIV>
 <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT>&nbsp;</DIV>
 <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Screen clears, then the message...
 bad?</FONT></DIV>
 <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT>&nbsp;</DIV>
 <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>DAN</FONT></DIV>
 <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT>&nbsp;</DIV>
 <BLOCKQUOTE dir=ltr
 style="PADDING-RIGHT: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; BORDER-LEFT:
#000000 2px solid; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px">
   <DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial">-- -- Original Message -- -- </DIV>
   <DIV
   style="BACKGROUND: #e4e4e4; FONT: 10pt arial; font-color: black"><B>From:<
/B>
   <A title=brucep@(protected) href="mailto:brucep@(protected)">Bruce
   Priebe</A> </DIV>
   <DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>To:</B> <A title=XSI@(protected)
   href="mailto:XSI@(protected)">XSI@(protected)</A> </DIV>
   <DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> Thursday, June 10, 2004 8:56
   PM</DIV>
   <DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> RE: Satellite rendering
   debugging?</DIV>
   <DIV><BR></DIV>
   <DIV><SPAN class=611075417-10062004><FONT face=Tahoma color=#0000ff>It
   shouldn't be a 2000 vs XP thing. My machine is 2000, and my Satellite
   machine is XP and it is working fine.</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
   <DIV><SPAN class=611075417-10062004><FONT face=Tahoma
   color=#0000ff></FONT></SPAN>&nbsp;</DIV>
   <DIV><SPAN class=611075417-10062004><FONT face=Tahoma color=#0000ff>How
does
   the error appear when you telnet? Like this?</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
   <DIV><SPAN class=611075417-10062004><FONT face=Tahoma
   color=#0000ff>U:\&gt;telnet&nbsp;localhost 7009<BR>Connecting To
   localhost...Could not open a connection to host on port 7009 :<BR>Access
   Denied</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
   <DIV><FONT face=Tahoma color=#0000ff></FONT>&nbsp;</DIV>
   <DIV><SPAN class=611075417-10062004><FONT face=Tahoma color=#0000ff>Or does
   the screen clear before you get the access denied
   message?</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
   <P><FONT face="Times New Roman" color=#800080>Bruce Priebe</FONT> <BR><FONT
   face="Comic Sans MS" color=#800080>Softimage/</FONT><FONT face="MS Serif"
   color=#000080>Avid</FONT> <BR><FONT face="Times New Roman"
   color=#800080>Softimage|XSI Technical Support</FONT> <BR><FONT
   face="Times New Roman" color=#800080>&amp; Jaunty Young Brainiac</FONT>
   <BR><FONT face="Times New Roman" color=#800080>brucep@(protected)</FONT>
   <BR><U><FONT face="Times New Roman" color=#0000ff><A
   href="http://www.softimage.com/Support/XSI"
   target=_blank>http://www.softimage.com/Support/XSI</A></FONT></U>
   <BR><B><FONT face="Times New Roman" color=#800080>Have you used the
   Knowledgebase today?</FONT></B> </P>
   <BLOCKQUOTE dir=ltr style="MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px">
     <DIV class=OutlookMessageHeader dir=ltr align=left><FONT face=Tahoma
     size=2>-- --Original Message-- --<BR><B>From:</B> owner-xsi@(protected)
     [mailto:owner-xsi@(protected)]<B>On Behalf Of </B>Dan
     Yargici<BR><B>Sent:</B> Thursday, June 10, 2004 1:03 PM<BR><B>To:</B>
     XSI@(protected)<BR><B>Subject:</B> Re: Satellite rendering
     debugging?<BR><BR></FONT></DIV>
     <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>OK, I got the syntax now, but I'm getting an
     access denied.&nbsp; Like I said, could it be a win2k -&gt; XP
     thing?&nbsp; I VNC'd into the render nodes and their Telnet service is
     disabled.&nbsp; I tried enabling and starting one anyway, but still the
     same 'Access Denied' response from telnet.</FONT></DIV>
     <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT>&nbsp;</DIV>
     <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>On a side note - would it be possible to
     setup a rayhosts manager inside NetView?&nbsp; Like an on/off switch, or
a
     load of checkboxes for different machines... Although I guess you'd still
     have to restart XSI to see the changes... hmmmm.....</FONT></DIV>
     <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT>&nbsp;</DIV>
     <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>DAN</FONT></DIV>
     <DIV>&nbsp;</DIV>
     <BLOCKQUOTE dir=ltr
     style="PADDING-RIGHT: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; BORDER
-LEFT: #000000 2px solid; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px">
       <DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial">-- -- Original Message -- -- </DIV>
       <DIV
       style="BACKGROUND: #e4e4e4; FONT: 10pt arial; font-color: black"><B
>From:</B>
       <A title=brucep@(protected) href="mailto:brucep@(protected)">Bruce
       Priebe</A> </DIV>
       <DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>To:</B> <A title=XSI@(protected)
       href="mailto:XSI@(protected)">XSI@(protected)</A> </DIV>
       <DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> Thursday, June 10, 2004 7:52
       PM</DIV>
       <DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> RE: Satellite rendering
       debugging?</DIV>
       <DIV><BR></DIV>
       <DIV><SPAN class=770134916-10062004><FONT face=Tahoma color=#0000ff>You
       shouldn't have to change the Satellite Service. It should run fine as
       the local System.</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
       <DIV><SPAN class=770134916-10062004><FONT face=Tahoma
       color=#0000ff></FONT></SPAN>&nbsp;</DIV>
       <DIV><SPAN class=770134916-10062004><FONT face=Tahoma color=#0000ff>As
       for telneting to the satellite port how are you doing it? The format
       mentioned by Dan is incorrect.</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
       <DIV><SPAN class=770134916-10062004><FONT face=Tahoma
       color=#0000ff></FONT></SPAN>&nbsp;</DIV>
       <DIV><SPAN class=770134916-10062004><FONT face=Tahoma
       color=#0000ff>telnet &lt;hostname&gt; &lt;port number&gt; is the way it
       is done. </FONT></SPAN></DIV>
       <DIV><SPAN class=770134916-10062004><FONT face=Tahoma
       color=#0000ff>&lt;hostname&gt;:&lt;port number&gt; is for the .ray3host
       file, not telnet from the command prompt.</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
       <DIV><SPAN class=770134916-10062004><FONT face=Tahoma
       color=#0000ff></FONT></SPAN>&nbsp;</DIV>
       <DIV><SPAN class=770134916-10062004><FONT face=Tahoma color=#0000ff
>When
       telneting to a machine that has the satellite service running, you
       should connect, but you shouldn't get a response
       back.</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
       <P><FONT face="Times New Roman" color=#800080>Bruce Priebe</FONT>
       <BR><FONT face="Comic Sans MS" color=#800080>Softimage/</FONT><FONT
       face="MS Serif" color=#000080>Avid</FONT> <BR><FONT
       face="Times New Roman" color=#800080>Softimage|XSI Technical
       Support</FONT> <BR><FONT face="Times New Roman" color=#800080>&amp;
       Jaunty Young Brainiac</FONT> <BR><FONT face="Times New Roman"
       color=#800080>brucep@(protected)</FONT> <BR><U><FONT
       face="Times New Roman" color=#0000ff><A
       href="http://www.softimage.com/Support/XSI"
       target=_blank>http://www.softimage.com/Support/XSI</A></FONT></U>
       <BR><B><FONT face="Times New Roman" color=#800080>Have you used the
       Knowledgebase today?</FONT></B> </P>
       <BLOCKQUOTE dir=ltr style="MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px">
         <DIV class=OutlookMessageHeader dir=ltr align=left><FONT face=Tahoma
         size=2>-- --Original Message-- --<BR><B>From:</B>
         owner-xsi@(protected) [mailto:owner-xsi@(protected)]<B>On Behalf
         Of </B>Sandy Sutherland<BR><B>Sent:</B> Thursday, June 10, 2004 10:51
         AM<BR><B>To:</B> XSI@(protected)<BR><B>Subject:</B> Re: Satellite
         rendering debugging?<BR><BR></FONT></DIV>
         <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>OK - just did some testing, and found
         that the satellite services were not running&nbsp; - they need to
have
         login setups, using the same login as your XSI ()runnable and working
)
         installations are - you can set this up using the services manager
         under control panels - administrative tools!</FONT></DIV>
         <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT>&nbsp;</DIV>
         <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Make sense???</FONT></DIV>
         <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT>&nbsp;</DIV>
         <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Cheers</FONT></DIV>
         <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT>&nbsp;</DIV>
         <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>S.</FONT></DIV>
         <DIV>&nbsp;</DIV>
         <DIV>-- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- -----<BR
>Sandy
         Sutherland&nbsp; Digital Doodeller/Technical Director<BR>The Refinery
         (Cape)&nbsp; <A
         href="http://www.refinery.co.za">http://www.refinery.co.za</A><BR><A
         href="mailto:sandy@(protected)">mailto:sandy@(protected)</A><BR
>(P)
         (+27 21) 480 3132&nbsp; (F) (+27 21) 480
         3101<BR>-- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- -----<
/DIV>
         <BLOCKQUOTE dir=ltr
         style="PADDING-RIGHT: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px;
BORDER-LEFT: #000000 2px solid; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px">
           <DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial">-- -- Original Message -- -- </DIV>
           <DIV
           style="BACKGROUND: #e4e4e4; FONT: 10pt arial; font-color: black"><B
>From:</B>
           <A title=dan@(protected) href="mailto:dan@(protected)">Dan
           Yargici</A> </DIV>
           <DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>To:</B> <A title=XSI@(protected)
           href="mailto:XSI@(protected)">XSI@(protected)</A> </DIV>
           <DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> Thursday, June 10, 2004
           3:39 PM</DIV>
           <DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> Re: Satellite
           rendering debugging?</DIV>
           <DIV><BR></DIV>
           <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Cheers for the help Sandy,</FONT></DIV>
           <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT>&nbsp;</DIV>
           <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>OK the way I have our system setup is
           this:</FONT></DIV>
           <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT>&nbsp;</DIV>
           <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>2 Workstations Win2k&nbsp; XSI4
           Adv.</FONT></DIV>
           <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>10 Renderboxes WinXP - Waiting for
           their lics, but I'm assuming the satellite&nbsp;tokens are taken
           from the Adv. lics. so for this test they don't need their own
           lics.</FONT></DIV>
           <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT>&nbsp;</DIV>
           <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>All machines share&nbsp;one setenv.bat
           file on the server to make administration a little easier for
           certain things (Moving the license server for example).&nbsp; In
           this Setenv.bat the .ray3hosts location is set to c:\Softimage and
           any other instances of ray*hosts&nbsp;files on all machines have
           been removed.&nbsp; In fact I think my machine is the only one with
           a .ray3hosts file out of all of them.&nbsp; In the .ray3hosts file
           I've declared all the slaves as&nbsp;IP adresses (to be safe)
           followed by :7007 the default port for satellite rendering.&nbsp;
           Now.&nbsp; When I type Telnet 192.0.0.42:7007 (correct syntax for a
           port?&nbsp; it doesn't throw&nbsp;any errors..) &nbsp;for example I
           get:</FONT></DIV>
           <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT>&nbsp;</DIV>
           <DIV><FONT face=Arial color=#ff0000 size=2>Could not open a
           connection to host on port 23 : Connect failed</FONT></DIV>
           <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT>&nbsp;</DIV>
           <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>I think this might be some kind of
           Win2k -&gt; WinXP telnet issue, mind.&nbsp; The machines can
           definately see each other...</FONT></DIV>
           <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT>&nbsp;</DIV>
           <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Anyways, still no sooooper fast
           distributed fun and games.... :(</FONT></DIV>
           <DIV>&nbsp;</DIV>
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             <DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial">-- -- Original Message -- -- </DIV>
             <DIV
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<B>From:</B>
             <A title=sandy@(protected)
             href="mailto:sandy@(protected)">Sandy Sutherland</A> </DIV>
             <DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>To:</B> <A
             title=XSI@(protected)
             href="mailto:XSI@(protected)">XSI@(protected)</A> </DIV>
             <DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> Thursday, June 10,
2004
             3:31 PM</DIV>
             <DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> Re: Satellite
             rendering debugging?</DIV>
             <DIV><BR></DIV>
             <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Well as long as your 'other'
machines
             can run XSI i.e. get licenses, then setup a rayhost file WITH
port
             numbers - these you can get from your services file, or write
them
             down when you install XSI on each machine - once you have done
             this, try and telnet into each machine using these port numbers -
             if telnet gives you errors, then you have the wrong port number,
             if it just dissapears, as with me - then bingo, you are onto a
             good start!&nbsp; Run XSI and start a render with verbose on, you
             should see the other machines returning percentage
             renders!!!</FONT></DIV>
             <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT>&nbsp;</DIV>
             <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>S.</FONT></DIV>
             <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT>&nbsp;</DIV>
             <DIV>-- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- -----
<BR>Sandy
             Sutherland&nbsp; Digital Doodeller/Technical Director<BR>The
             Refinery (Cape)&nbsp; <A
             href="http://www.refinery.co.za">http://www.refinery.co.za</A><BR
><A
             href="mailto:sandy@(protected)">mailto:sandy@(protected)</A
><BR>(P)
             (+27 21) 480 3132&nbsp; (F) (+27 21) 480
             3101<BR>-- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ----
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               <DIV
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"><B>From:</B>
               <A title=dan@(protected) href="mailto:dan@(protected)"
>Dan
               Yargici</A> </DIV>
               <DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>To:</B> <A
               title=XSI@(protected)
               href="mailto:XSI@(protected)">XSI@(protected)</A> </DIV>
               <DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> Thursday, June 10,
               2004 1:53 PM</DIV>
               <DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> Satellite
               rendering debugging?</DIV>
               <DIV><BR></DIV>
               <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Anyone here got their satellite
               rendering working?&nbsp; I'm not a total newbie to this, and I
               managed to get distributed rendering working in earlier
               versions, but I'm having no luck today....</FONT></DIV>
               <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT>&nbsp;</DIV>
               <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Anything I should be aware of
               before I delve deeper?</FONT></DIV>
               <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT>&nbsp;</DIV>
               <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>As we have no standalone MR lics
               it's hard to diagnose without being able to run ray3 -v to
check
               the status of the slaves.... I noticed the Raysat.exe
executable
               but after sifting through the -h output there&nbsp;appears to
be
               no diagnostic switches to try... -v just returns MentalRay
               copyright info.... :-/</FONT></DIV>
               <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT>&nbsp;</DIV>
               <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Thanks,</FONT></DIV>
               <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT>&nbsp;</DIV>
               <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>DAN</FONT></DIV>
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