Alan has just pointed out to me that XP won't allow you to access a mapped
drive from a service, no matter what and a bit of research shows this to be
the case. Sodding Windows.
> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-xsi(at)Softimage.COM [mailto:owner-xsi(at)Softimage.COM] On
> Behalf Of Kim Aldis
> Sent: 04 December 2006 12:25
> To: XSI(at)Softimage.COM
> Subject: RE: OT: service-based render can't see mapped drives.
>
> Thanks Morten. Another reason to dislike drive mappings. Jeez, the time
> you waste on things like this doesn't bear thinking about, does it.
>
>
>
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: owner-xsi(at)Softimage.COM [mailto:owner-xsi(at)Softimage.COM] On
> > Behalf Of Morten Bartholdy
> > Sent: 04 December 2006 12:26
> > To: XSI(at)Softimage.COM
> > Subject: Re: OT: service-based render can't see mapped drives.
> >
> > Kim, I had this constantly on my machine at home on 5.11 and I simply
> > had to wait 300 sec for it to go look for my textures - more than a
> > bit annoying.
> > Running on QFE10 now and it works fine. Alexandra O'Connor sent me a
> > list of fixes in this QFE:
> >
> > QFE 10:
> >
> > UDEV00230178 Part 1: UNC paths vs. mapped drives (Recent Scenes)
> >
> > So try and give support a shout if you have this problem.
> >
> >
> > MB
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Alan Jones" <skyphyr(at)gmail.com>
> > To: <XSI(at)Softimage.COM>
> > Sent: Monday, December 04, 2006 12:58 PM
> > Subject: Re: OT: service-based render can't see mapped drives.
> >
> >
> > > It's a feature. Seriously. As far as I'm aware there is no way to
> > > change it either.
> > >
> > > On 12/4/06, Kim Aldis <XSI(at)kim-aldis.co.uk> wrote:
> > >>
> > >>
> > >>
> > >>
> > >> I've an interesting situation here. My renderfarm uses a service
> to
> > run
> > >> jobs
> > >> submitted remotely. I have machine 'A' with a drive attached to
> > >> it, mounted as Q: and shared with share name Q. The rendering
> > >> service runs on
> > both A
> > >> and
> > >> B and logs in as user 'Adminstrator'. Permissions on A's Q: give
> > everbody
> > >> full control. Adminstrator on B has Q: mapped to \\A\Q. Logged in
> > >> to
> > B,
> > >> Adminstrator can start XSI, load scenes from Q: and render quite
> > happily.
> > >> However, the service log output is telling me that the scene on Q:
> > can't
> > >> be
> > >> read and that drive Q: will be marked unreadable for 300 seconds.
> > >> If
> > I
> > >> add a
> > >> line in my rendering script that makes a system call to 'net use'
> > that
> > >> tries
> > >> to map the share to Q:, I get a warning that : is already mapped.
> > >> No other errors or warnings are logged and the event viewer shows
> > >> no entries
> > that
> > >> could be relevant. I've checked the number of sessions on machine
> A
> > and
> > >> it's
> > >> well within limits.
> > >>
> > >>
> > >>
> > >> This is undoubtedly a windows problem but it's not one I've
> > encountered
> > >> before. As far as I can see this should be working. Does anyone
> > >> have
> > any
> > >> thoughts as to why the service can't see this drive?
> > >>
> > >>
> > >>
> > >> Thanks.
> > >>
> > >>
> > >>
> > >> www.kim-aldis.co.uk | kim(at)kim-aldis.co.uk
> > >>
> > >>
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