Help with network rendering

[Oscar J]

I take it you've read this:

http://www.indigorenderer.com/documenta ... g-tutorial

The message in the window means exactly what it says, it's waiting for the master computer to send out the scene files. Make sure you have the Network Rendering button enabled in the GUI on your master computer, and start rendering. If the slave doesn't start downloading the components from the master there might be a firewall or some other stuff blocking it (oh the things Win users have to deal with ).

[Headroom]

Yes, I've tried it with the Network manager as well. It does not show either a master or a client.
It also has a licensing window, and shows no license as I don't have one.

[zeitmeister]

Forget the manager. Did you activate file sharing and everything on the Mac? Could you provide a screenshot of your Mac network settings? Maybe you have to give full read/write permissions to your Library Indigo folder, too!


Cheers, zeiti

[Headroom]

I appreciate the help and will try some things.
My kids now have taken a hold of their computers and rendering with Indigo parallel to Minecraft and WoW would disagree with them, so I'll have to defer further experiments until later

[Headroom]

One thing I already noticed yesterday is that the license upgrade for the nodes does seem to be permanent.

I entered the license information into the apropriate window and it showed the it's now a node 3.0 license, however, when I rebooted the machine it went back to a node 2.0 license. deleting the license.sig in the indigo folder did not appear to make any difference. Is the license key/info stored permanently in another place, perhaps in the registry ?

[zeitmeister]

Afaik no... Works like a charm here on win and mac.
There are strange things going on with your machines.


Cheers, zeiti

[Headroom]

Yeah, the 2 windows machines are mad because they are slaves to a mac. As should be Har Har Har

[Headroom]

Looks like the node license "thing" is fixed now. Maybe just some user error.

The other stuff still does not work. I un-instaled McAfee completely on one of the machines but it did not make any difference. The Master just does not see the Slaves and the slaves, while listening on port 7100 never receive anything from the master.

@zeitmeister,
Are you running the master on a mac and do you do this from an admin account ?
I am starting Indigo from a normal user account on the mac.

[zeitmeister]

I am using an Admin account.
Can you ping the slave machines from the Mac; or do you see them in the finder network sidetab?
Maybe there's something with your router settings.
For my time machine running on a buffalo NAS I had to allow extra IPs and ports on the router.
Do the slaves and the Mac have fixed IPs?


Cheers, zeiti

[Headroom]

Yes, I can see moth Windows machines in the Finder's side bar listed under "Shared".
I can ping both Windows machines from the mac.
I can ping the mac from both windows machines.

The mac and one windows machine have a fixed IP, the other windows machine receives it's IP though DHCP.

However, let's start with with the fort steps described in the manual:

The steps described under Master Computer are clear, but I have questions about the steps relating to the Slave Computer.
In Indigo's installation directory are 5 executables:

• Indigo
• Indigo Console
• network_client_service
• network_client_service_manager
• network_manager

Do I need to do anything with these, e.g. do I need to start network_client_service before I fire up Indigo ?
Or can I just start Indigo and select "Tools->"Start render Slave" from Indigo's GUI menu ?

[Oscar J]

The way I do it is normally just starting the "Indigo Network Client" on the slaves, and that's it. Enabling network rendering from Blendigo or in the Indigo GUI on the master computer enables the slaves and feeds them with the scene data.

[Headroom]

Aha!
I had tried that as well but it did not work. Of course the windows command window pops up and dsisapears so quickly that one cannot see anything.

So I ran the network_client_service from the command line manually on a slave and I am presented with the message in the screenshot below. This was with Indigo running on a user account (not admin) on the master with Network rendering enabled and rendering the caterpillar scene.

[zeitmeister]

Did you enable file and windows sharing on the mac? And did you add the Indigo library folders (nerwork cache etc.) manually as well?


Cheers, zeiti

[zeitmeister]

Tested it under El Capitan, latest Indigo build, latest Cindigo build, C4D R17 with Parallels Desktop on the same machine by just installing the network client... works.
Different IP for the parallels network adapter. Just allowed private network access on windows.
Works fine.
Maybe for the WLAN you should allow public access on the windows machines?
But I bet it has something to do with your WLAN router settings.

[Headroom]

Thanks again for you help!

I'had done that. I can see both o f the win10 slaves in the finder, connect to them and look at the contents of their shared folders.

Oddly enough I can see the iMac only on one machine and access the shared folders on the iMac from that machine. However the other machine does not even see the iMac.
I looked at all the settings and they seem to be identical. I compared ifconfig output and that all looks OK.

As it pertains to Indigo, the master still cannot see the slaves and the slaves are waiting to receive something on port 7100...

To be continued.