RE: service-based render can't see mapped drives.

["Kim Aldis" <XSI(at)kim-aldis.co.uk>]

 

Thanks anyway but I had this fixed some time ago. XP services don’t like mapped drives, NT didn’t care to much but the obviously decided to add some more pointless and completely ineffective security fluff.

 

From: owner-xsi(at)Softimage.COM [mailto:owner-xsi(at)Softimage.COM] On Behalf Of Felici Andrea
Sent: 03 January 2007 13:13
To: XSI(at)Softimage.COM
Subject: RE: service-based render can't see mapped drives.

 

Try loading scenes directly from UNC path, on both A & B machine.

 

Andrea Felici

RAI Radiotelevisione Italiana

 

 

 

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From: owner-xsi(at)Softimage.COM [mailto:owner-xsi(at)Softimage.COM] On Behalf Of Kim Aldis
Sent: Monday, December 04, 2006 12:21 PM
To: XSI(at)Softimage.COM
Subject: OT: service-based render can't see mapped drives.

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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