cyrill Posted October 25, 2017 Share Posted October 25, 2017 Hi all, We're setting up a small render farm with Houdini 16. We have one server with Hqueue Server and the shared drive. This Server also serves as the License Server. At the moment we have only one Render Client (for testing purposes) with Hqueue client and nothing else installed. When trying to render something we get a License Error: Unable to connect to hserver for license acquisition error. Question how can I point the clients to the correct license Server? I understand that this can be done in the License Administrator but it isn't installed on the client. Should we install Houdini on every client? Thanks you for your help Regards, Cyrill Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cyrill Posted October 25, 2017 Author Share Posted October 25, 2017 Edit: After installing the Commercial License Server on the client I moved one step ahead ( I think). I managed to set the License Server with 'hserver -S servername', but now I get the error message: No licenses could be found to run this application. Please check for a valid license server host As mentioned we want to render on the farm (no simulation) and we have 15 Mantra render licenses (all of them available) installed on our license Server. Any Ideas? Thx Cyrill Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lukeiamyourfather Posted October 25, 2017 Share Posted October 25, 2017 3 hours ago, cyrill said: Should we install Houdini on every client? Yes. In my experience the network install never works quite right. 1 hour ago, cyrill said: No licenses could be found to run this application. Are you running jobs with existing IFD archives that were manually generated in Houdini? Or is the farm trying to generate the IFD archives on the fly? If trying to generate the IFD archives on the fly from a Houdini scene file you need a Houdini Engine or Houdini license on the farm to generate the IFD archives. Mantra will render an image using an IFD archive, not a Houdini scene file. Only Houdini can generate the IFD archive needed by Mantra. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cyrill Posted October 26, 2017 Author Share Posted October 26, 2017 Thanks a lot for your feedback Luke. Regarding the licenses this is now solved. We actually did try to generate the IFD on the fly (we have only one Houdini license), this is now solved. However we now run into what I assume are Windows permission related issues. I'll include our Admin and maybe SideFX support to help us fix this. Thanks Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LaidlawFX Posted October 27, 2017 Share Posted October 27, 2017 What build and OS are you on? There was a decade long problem on installing on windows pcs they fixed a short time ago where the service was not registering. Make sure you log into the machine as the admin user for the network account you set up and verify that, that user has access to all directories and programs. This is a common problem. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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