Re: 6.01//mixing XP32sattelites with a XP64 6.01 (32bit)

["Tim Leydecker" <BauerOink(at)gmx.de>]

Answering my own question.

In short: It does work.

Long:

When running XP64 and XP32 with the SP2 Firewall,
make sure you explicitely open the ports XSI/mental ray
will require for master slave communication. While you
do so, make sure that file/printersharing is enabled, too.

To minimize security hassle, you may want to "change scope"
to "My network (subnet) only" for the below and any XSI,
or "file and printer sharing" entries.

That would be the two/three ports listed in your services
file after installation of XSI. As an example for XSI 6.02:

mi-spm                          [portnumber] /tcp                 #
mi-raysat3_5_7_23       [portnumber] /tcp                 #
mi-ray3_5_7_23           [portnumber]/tcp                 #

You´ll easily find the services file using "search" in your windows
directory. Open with notepad. Open those ports in your firewall...

Now, the softimage wiki and help may suggest to telnet each
slave to test functionality, which is o.k. for people that do have
telnet/Remote Desktop/whatever enabled by default/mistake.

Here´s a hands on approach that won´t require telnet:

Do a custom/full install of XSI on each slave, including
licensing setup. Pick the local machine as licensing server
(since the server used later may not be installed yet...).

Once you´re done, find "localhost" in your setenv.bat file,
add your server XSI>UserTools>setenv.bat, to something like:

set _SPM_HOST=localhost;myspmserver

Where "myspmserver" is the machinename or an IP like 192.168.0.2)
This´ll let you run XSI via a "localhost" dongle or via "myspmserver".

You do that on all your slaves, then simply fire up the
"License Manager" and query your "myspmserver".
Obviously, the "myspmserver" should have a license running...
If you get a response from the query, communication with
mi-spm is working. Now, to give it a final check, try to start
XSI on you slave (one at a time), if that works, satelitte rendering
will do so, too.

Last step, add the slaves to your ray3hosts file, where
mi-raysat3_5_7_23       [portnumber] /tcp                 #
gives you the port for satelitte rendering and
mi-ray3_5_7_23           [portnumber]/tcp                 #
for batch rendering/distributed rendering

Samplefile:

MySlave:7007
MyHouse:7007
MySlave:7008
MyHouse:7008

Start XSI on your Master, enable Progress messages for you
renderregion, load something complex and enjoy the scripteditor
spitting lines with your slaves in it.

Cheers

tim

P.S: Some of the above should be in the help, it cost me yet
another day to get things going on a lousy three machine setup,
mostly because I didn´t get the firewall to behave or tell me anything...















----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Tim Leydecker" <BauerOink(at)gmx.de>
To: <XSI(at)Softimage.COM>
Sent: Sunday, August 05, 2007 9:10 PM
Subject: 6.01//mixing XP32sattelites with a XP64 6.01 (32bit)


> Hi guys,
>
> did anyone of you successfully start a renderregion
> in a 32bit XSI 6.01 session on a XP64 machine
> with a XP32/XSI6.01 sattelite contributing?
>
> E.g., master is 64bit but runs 32bitXSI, slave
> is 32bitXP running 32bit XSI6.01.
>
> Can´t get it to work, any pointers?
>
> Cheers
>
> tim
>
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