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by kjacobs
Tue Jan 09, 2018 4:04 am
Forum: Setup
Topic: Render Farm Setup Help
Replies: 22
Views: 25428

Re: Render Farm Setup Help

I have spent the past 2 weeks trying to get the cgru server and 1 slave machine to render together. I even went so far as to completely rebuild the slave computer from scratch and reinstall CGRU again. No matter what I have tried.....ie permanent drive mapping to server, path mapping ion cgru, etc.....
by kjacobs
Wed Jan 03, 2018 3:21 pm
Forum: Setup
Topic: Render Farm Setup Help
Replies: 22
Views: 25428

Re: Render Farm Setup Help

I added the following to the config.json on the client.....

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"pathsmap":[
	["//rfserver/home/render/Render/","/media/Render/"],
]
After adding the pathsmap to the client, it rendered correctly one time. After that, it stopped working again....
by kjacobs
Sun Dec 31, 2017 11:13 pm
Forum: Setup
Topic: Render Farm Setup Help
Replies: 22
Views: 25428

Re: Render Farm Setup Help

AHA.....I finally got it to work correctly.....ONCE! I added the path to the server into the slave config and then ran another test. That one solitary test worked perfectly.....both machines rendered the test file completely to the end. However, when I tried to run another test.....the slave quit wo...
by kjacobs
Sun Dec 31, 2017 5:25 pm
Forum: Setup
Topic: Render Farm Setup Help
Replies: 22
Views: 25428

Re: Render Farm Setup Help

I found the previous session log....hurray! HOSTNAME=kenneth-hplaptop Error: Cannot read file '/home/render/Render/untitled.20171231091241.blend': No such file or directory Blender quit Apparently, the slave cannot find the file on the master, even though the master gives full write permission to ev...
by kjacobs
Sun Dec 31, 2017 2:30 am
Forum: Setup
Topic: Render Farm Setup Help
Replies: 22
Views: 25428

Re: Render Farm Setup Help

Will try a couple more logs from a new test.....this is the error-hosts log for the last test session I ran. Block['BLENDER_RENDER'] error hosts: kenneth-hp-probook-4730s: 3 at Sat 30 Dec 18:20.14 - ! AVOIDING ! Task[0] error hosts: kenneth-hp-probook-4730s: 3 at Sat 30 Dec 18:20.14 - ! AVOIDING ! A...
by kjacobs
Sat Dec 30, 2017 3:10 am
Forum: Setup
Topic: Render Farm Setup Help
Replies: 22
Views: 25428

Re: Render Farm Setup Help

OK...ran another test, just rendering 25 frames.....one master and one slave. Here are the logs from Frame 1 only, as that is the frame that tries to render on the slave first and then moves to the master. First the Error Log again.... Task[0] error hosts: kenneth-hp-probook-4730s: 3 at Fri 29 Dec 1...
by kjacobs
Fri Dec 29, 2017 5:21 am
Forum: Setup
Topic: Render Farm Setup Help
Replies: 22
Views: 25428

Re: Render Farm Setup Help

Hi Timur, Sorry....I thought I was looking for the Output in Blender. I found the tasks and output in Afanasy. I did not see anything in the actual task list. What I did find was on the Error Hosts tab.... Task[0] error hosts: kenneth-hp-probook-4730s: 3 at Thu 28 Dec 21:17.34 - ! AVOIDING ! It appe...
by kjacobs
Thu Dec 28, 2017 5:33 am
Forum: Setup
Topic: Render Farm Setup Help
Replies: 22
Views: 25428

Re: Render Farm Setup Help

Hi again, Could you explain where to find the Task Output in Blender??? I must be honest.....I am building this small render farm for my daughter, who is very familiar with working in Blender.....from an artist standpoint. My daughter has not heard of the Task Output in Blender or how to find it. I ...
by kjacobs
Wed Dec 27, 2017 3:06 am
Forum: Setup
Topic: Render Farm Setup Help
Replies: 22
Views: 25428

Re: Render Farm Setup Help

I got a chance to try another test render, with the same result. The master continues to render, but the slave stops after trying frame 1. Here are the task logs from each machine. The first is the slave computer.... Tue 26 Dec 18:49.40 : Starting task: [blender:1000] render: Test[BLENDER_RENDER][fr...
by kjacobs
Sun Dec 24, 2017 8:22 am
Forum: Setup
Topic: Render Farm Setup Help
Replies: 22
Views: 25428

Re: Render Farm Setup Help

I am still struggling with getting slave machines to do some work when sending a job to be rendered. The slave machine shows up fine and ready to go on the "render list", along with the server (which I also have set to render). When I start a job, both machines start to render frames.........