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Manager and Server
Initial Setup for Manager and Server Programs
The files necessary for network rendering are copied to the Backburner root
directory when you install the software. Two of these files, manager.exe and
server.exe, require initialization before they can be run. Set up the Manager
program first, then the Server. When you're finished, you can start network
rendering. After setup, you can run both Manager and Server as services by
installing managersvc.exe and serversvc.exe, respectively.
You need to initialize only one machine as network Manager. This can be any
machine on the network, and can be used on a machine running the Server,
3ds Max, or both.
You need to initialize every machine used as a rendering Server. This is done
once to establish the connection between the rendering Server and the network
Manager.
The Manager and Server programs can be run in application mode as explained
in the procedures that follow, or as Windows 2000 or XP services, in which
case they run in the background and provide less feedback on the progression
of the rendering job. To learn more about installing these programs as services,
see
Installing Network Services on page 6302 .
Initialization is done only once for each service. Each initialization process
creates or updates the following:
■ A subdirectory called \Network under the Backburner root directory,
containing several further subdirectories, including \Jobs, \Servers, and
\ServerJob. By default, the Backburner directory is called Backburner, and is
found in the \Program Files\Autodesk\ directory.
■ A file with initialization parameters (backburner.xml).
■ A log file that keeps track of what the services do (backburner.log).
Next Step
Starting Network Rendering on page 6248
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