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Hi Kim,
All the machines in our farm are RenderBoxxes and are using the pre-defined
(and only) user account 'boxx' This account has full priveledges as far as I'm
aware. We haven't changed a thing since v3.5.1.1 so we know they can all talk
quite happily when they want to!
DAN
-- -- Original Message -- --
From: kim aldis
To: XSI@(protected)
Sent: Thursday, June 10, 2004 8:33 PM
Subject: RE: Satellite rendering debugging?
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From: owner-xsi@(protected) [mailto:owner-xsi@(protected)] On Behalf Of
Dan Yargici
Sent: 10 June 2004 18:03
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.
[kim aldis]
shouldn't matter about the telnet server, the satellite service is is the
server you're connecting to, not telnet. Access denied? Firewall (probably not)
security policies? Under what user is the satelite service running, if it's the
default system account then this could account for the permission denied, if
not, check the user account under which the service is running, see if it has
permission to access the network. If in doubt, give it the administrator
account (temporarily), see if that works.
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 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
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-- -- Original Message -- --
From: Dan 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
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
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-- -- Original Message -- --
From: Dan 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><FONT face=Arial size=2>Hi Kim,</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>All the machines in our farm are RenderBoxxes and
are using the pre-defined (and only) user account 'boxx' This account has
full priveledges as far as I'm aware. We haven't changed a thing since
v3.5.1.1 so we know they can all talk quite happily when they want
to!</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>DAN</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV>
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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial">-- -- Original Message -- -- </DIV>
<DIV
style="BACKGROUND: #e4e4e4; FONT: 10pt arial; font-color: black"><B>From:</B>
<A title=kim@(protected) href="mailto:kim@(protected)">kim aldis</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 8:33
PM</DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> RE: Satellite rendering
debugging?</DIV>
<DIV><BR></DIV>
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<FONT face=Tahoma size=2><B>From:</B> <A
href="mailto:owner-xsi@(protected)">owner-xsi@(protected)</A>
[mailto:owner-xsi@(protected)] <B>On Behalf Of </B>Dan
Yargici<BR><B>Sent:</B> 10 June 2004 18:03<BR><B>To:</B> <A
href="mailto:XSI@(protected)">XSI@(protected)</A><BR><B>Subject:</B> Re
:
Satellite rendering debugging?<BR></FONT><BR></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial><FONT size=2>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.<BR><SPAN
class=171083017-10062004><FONT color=#008080>[kim
aldis] </FONT></SPAN></FONT></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial><FONT size=2><SPAN class=171083017-10062004>shouldn't
matter about the telnet server, the satellite service is is the server
you're connecting to, not telnet. Access denied? Firewall (probably not)
security policies? Under what user is the satelite service running, if it's
the default system account then this could account for the permission
denied, if not, check the user account under which the service is running,
see if it has permission to access the network. If in doubt, give it the
administrator account (temporarily), see if that
works.</SPAN></FONT></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial><FONT size=2><SPAN
class=171083017-10062004></SPAN></FONT></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial><FONT size=2>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.....<SPAN
class=171083017-10062004><FONT
color=#008080> </FONT></SPAN></FONT></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>DAN</FONT></DIV>
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<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> </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> </DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=770134916-10062004><FONT face=Tahoma color=#0000ff
>telnet
<hostname> <port number> is the way it is done.
</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=770134916-10062004><FONT face=Tahoma
color=#0000ff><hostname>:<port number> 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> </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>& 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>
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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 - 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> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Make sense???</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Cheers</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>S.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV>-- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- -----<BR
>Sandy
Sutherland Digital Doodeller/Technical Director<BR>The Refinery
(Cape) <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 (F) (+27 21) 480
3101<BR>-- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- -----</DIV>
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<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> </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> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>2 Workstations Win2k XSI4
Adv.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>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.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>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:</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </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> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>I think this might be some kind of Win2k
-> WinXP telnet issue, mind. The machines can definately see
each other...</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Anyways, still no sooooper fast
distributed fun and games.... :(</FONT></DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial">-- -- Original Message -- -- </DIV>
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style="BACKGROUND: #e4e4e4; FONT: 10pt arial; font-color: black"><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! 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> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>S.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV>-- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- -----<BR
>Sandy
Sutherland Digital Doodeller/Technical Director<BR>The
Refinery (Cape) <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 (F) (+27 21) 480
3101<BR>-- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- -----<
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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? 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> </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> </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 appears to be no
diagnostic switches to try... -v just returns MentalRay copyright
info.... :-/</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Thanks,</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>DAN</FONT></DIV>
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