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■ All network communications and protocols are installed and operating
correctly.
■ The computers run Windows XP Pro, Windows 2000, or NT 4.0. Limitations
of other operating systems could cause network rendering to be unreliable.
■ All of the computers have names that start with letters. Machine names
that start with a number will fail.
■ You haven't previous attempted network rendering. If you have already
attempted network rendering and want to return to the original state,
delete everything in the \Program Files\Autodesk\Backburner\Network folder
except nrres.dat.
■ Manager and Server have not been installed as services.
Summary of Procedures
■ Procedure 1 - Use this procedure for configuring a single system to render
jobs to itself; in other words, to perform batch rendering that is managed
by Backburner.
■ Procedure 2 - Use this procedure for configuring a Backburner Manager
system to render to one or more Backburner Server systems. The Manager
system will not be involved in the rendering tasks.
■ Procedure 3 - Use this procedure for configuring the Backburner Manager
and Backburner Server systems to render tasks together.
Special Consideration for Procedures 2 and 3
To use a render farm, you must output a frame sequence in a still-image file
format; for example, a series of BMP files. You cannot render animated file
formats such as AVI or MOV to multiple systems. You must render animated
files to a single system. When rendering to an animated file format, the Use
All Servers check box in the Network Job Assignment dialog is unavailable.
Basic Procedure 1: Single-System Network Rendering
This procedure describes usage of network rendering on a single computer.
The main advantage to this method over standard rendering is that you can
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