Leonardo Bernardini

This suggestion has been accepted and integrated from version 5.1

OS X is supported on Server side and as a renderclient. There’s no GUI avaible, the only way to access a Dispatcher server from OS X is using the integrated web server.

Regards.

Version 5.04 is out and it addresses some bad issues discovered during the previous days. That kind of problem should not happen anymore.

This has been explained several times on the online manual also, I’ll put here a resume, hope it’s clear:

The management console performs any operation on the services and the remote file systems using the Windows API. The entire authorization procedure is handled by windows itself, this means you can have two distinct scenarious:

1 – You’re working on a workgroup. In that case, you’ve to be sure to be logged locally as an Administrator and also , your Administrator account must be available on the remote nodes sharing the same password. This will grant the user remote access. Also, if remote nodes are XP based, be sure to TURN OFF SIMPLE FILE SHARING. Details can be found on the microsoft MSDN site.

2 – You’ re logging on a domain. In that case, just log as a domain Administrator, be sure that the domain Administrator is also a LOCAL ADMINISTRATOR on each node and everything will work fine.

Your case is a little weird. You’re working on a domain but you have the farm on a workgroup outside the domain. I suggest you to make one of the following choice:

1 – Use the management console from an host that’s part of the workgroup, follow the rules I said before and you shouldn’t have any problem.

2 – Get yourself a big headache and find a way to authenticate a domain user on a workstation outside the domain itself. This is a little complicated but I think there should be a way to make it working.

Hope everything has sense

We are aware of the problem, we have been able to reproduce it on our testing environment, it seams that’s something related to Maya 8 only. The weird thing is that Mental ray for Maya 8, is actually ignoring the “-of iff” flag used by Muster to force rendering in IFF file format, the uber-weird thing is that Maya reports something like “file format unsupported, using Maya IFF”.

We are investigating the issue hoping to provide a fix in the upcoming patch 5.03. We would like to avoid using two different templates for maya 7/8 so we hope to find a solution working on both environment.

In the meanwhile, if you get some kind of readable slices, I suggest you to assemble them manually until we find a working solution.

Next patch is scheduled in 15/20 days just for the end of the year.

Dear Mike,

You should check that the Maya scene you’re going to render do not force the render in .TGA file. Muster render the slices by default using the IFF file format (using -of iff flag), but if for some reasons, the render is done in another format, the assembler will fail.

You can override the default behaviour and use TGA by modified the single frame template.

regards.