Autodesk 12812-051462-9011 User Guide 3 - Page 1246

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 6503. 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 6450 Manager and Server | 6501