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To submit a network rendering job:
1 Start the Backburner Manager and Backburner Server.
2 In the Network Job Assignment dialog, make sure the Automatic Search
option is on, and then click Connect.
In most cases, the software detects the Manager machine and displays
its attached Servers in the Server list. If auto-detect fails, turn off Automatic
Search and manually enter the name or IP address of the network machine
acting as the Manager, and then click Connect.
All rendering Servers running under the network Manager should be
listed with green dots next to them. Even if a server is running an
interactive session of the software, it will still render an assigned job by
launching a second copy of the software.
3 By default, the job will use all available Servers. To use only specific
Servers, turn off Use All Servers and choose the machines you want to
use from the Server list.
4 Click Submit.
The job is submitted to the Manager, which then distributes the job to
the machines assigned in the Network Job Assignment dialog. Network
rendering begins.
When network rendering begins on a rendering Server, the Rendering
dialog appears on machines running serverapp.exe. If a machine is running
the service version, no dialog appears.
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