Soundtrax and Net Rendering

Ethanw · Post by **Ethanw** » Mon Oct 02, 2006 7:29 pm

I have been unsuccessful in initiating a net render session without multiple licenses of this product installed.

Most plugins don't require the rendernodes to actually require a server or nodelocked auth. if they're only called at render time.

Do you guys have a solution for this?

(I'm obviously not rendering any audio via netrender, but it's becoming a chore to revert from SoundTrax prior to submitting any finished work to our farm.)

Thanks in advance~

Post by **boomer** » Tue Oct 03, 2006 8:12 am

EthanW,

This is surprising, I'll investigate. For clarity, you do have the plugin available to the rendering nodes, just not authorized - right?

In the mean time, a quick work around is to download the demo version and install it on your render nodes - will that work for you?

Thanks,

Matt Kaustinen
Boomer Labs

Ethanw · Post by **Ethanw** » Tue Oct 03, 2006 11:51 am

I guess I should clarify, this works if we run through the whole installer (including serial) on an individual node, but copying just the plugin itself still throws an error. After speaking with IT I can confirm it isn't 'asking' for auth via our license server for each node.

Running the installer on 30+ nodes is a bit of a headache at this point, and I was hoping you had a simple way to drop this one our nodes without the need of a manual install (registry entry and copying key files?.)

Thanks for the quick response btw!

Post by **boomer** » Tue Oct 03, 2006 3:45 pm

Hi Ethan,

OK. In that case, the demo should do the trick. Any luck with that?

Thanks,

Matt Kaustinen
Boomer Labs

Ethanw · Post by **Ethanw** » Tue Oct 03, 2006 5:05 pm

Using the demo version still requires logging in to each render node and using the installer, no?

I'm looking for a file only solution as we have a maxscript that automatically copies missing plugins to each node, but copying SoundTrax.dlc by itself doesn't work.

Can you provide a list of necessary files so I can try that route?

Post by **boomer** » Tue Oct 03, 2006 9:07 pm

Ethan,

I sent the file to you via email. Please confirm that it meets your needs.

Matt Kaustinen
Boomer Labs

Ethanw · Post by **Ethanw** » Wed Oct 04, 2006 12:38 pm

Just got it all setup, seems to be working.

Thanks for all the help, Matt.