OK that part is different than my setup. Can't help getting frustrated over
uncle Bill and his cohorts now and then...
MB
----- Original Message -----
From: "Kim Aldis" <XSI(at)kim-aldis.co.uk>
To: <XSI(at)Softimage.COM>
Sent: Monday, December 04, 2006 1:35 PM
Subject: RE: OT: service-based render can't see mapped drives.
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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