skyros Posted December 19, 2013 Share Posted December 19, 2013 I was wondering if any Houdini guru's would be able to help me with a render farm problem we are having. Each farm client (5 total) has HServer installed, access to the HQueue license server and the shared drive with Houdini distributables. Additionally we have 100mantra rendering licenses, and 5 batch licenses When I submit a job and only leave one client enabled (doesn't matter which), the render will be successful. If I include all clients I receive this error and the job fails. mantra: Network Error[RWCWRK7004374] HServer was unable to start mantra mantra: Network Error[RWCWRK7004876] HServer was unable to start mantra mantra: Network Error[RWCWRK7004560] HServer was unable to start mantra mantra: Network Error[RWCWRK7004369] HServer was unable to start mantra mantra: No remote hosts are available for rendering Does anyone have any ideas to what might be causing this? Thanks Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
edward Posted December 20, 2013 Share Posted December 20, 2013 Are you able to run mantra independently of hqueue on the farm machine? Test with something like: mantra -Va1 -f test.ifd Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
skyros Posted December 20, 2013 Author Share Posted December 20, 2013 Actually I cannot run mantra from the client machines via command line. I wonder if this is due to the shared drive hosting the houdini distributables? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
edward Posted December 21, 2013 Share Posted December 21, 2013 I doubt it. Most likely a configuration issue. What OS are your client machines running? On the client machine command line, is the HFS environment variable set correctly? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
skyros Posted December 30, 2013 Author Share Posted December 30, 2013 (edited) Sorry for the late reply, our studio was closed for the holidays. we are running all Windows 7 PC's. When I checked the environment variables they are indeed not set. Running "hconfig" from the command line tools fails. Where would I set the env variables for the client machines? Hqnode.ini or would I need to create a houdini.env file somewhere that points to the host machine? Here is the contents of my HQnode.ini file, you will notice the job_environment is blank. [job_environment] [main] server = rwcwrk7006750 port = 5000 sharedNetwork.mount = \\rwcwrk7006750\HoudiniShare Edited December 30, 2013 by skyros Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
skyros Posted December 30, 2013 Author Share Posted December 30, 2013 I managed to get the farm working. Not sure what was wrong, but it was definitely a config issue. I just set everything up from scratch again. server, clients and map drives. For whatever reason it appears that everything is working now. I really appreciate the help everyone! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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