So, I am setting up a small 8 blade render arm at a customer site. They just recieved their Max 2010 disks and want these on teh farm. The blades are all running Vista64 with 8GB RAM, and are mounting a CIFS share to work on. The issue is I fire off a render and nothing happens. First I had to add the path to max 2010 to the environemnt so it would even submit the job and not fail immediately, now it starts, says running and never moves from there. if I then log into the blade to look for the log file after killing it, there is no log file to be found. Next while logged in I tried resubmitting the job, and got a message on the blade about a program being unable to display a message box, due ot a partial incompatability with Vista. When I tell it to show it, it brings up a MAX script window, and a render box, but they both just sit there.
This is my first MAX+Qube setup so I am still feeling my way around it. Are there any gotchas I obviously forgot to look for? network settings are all kosher and network volume mounts just fine.
Thank you.
