Autodesk 12812-051462-9011 User Guide 3 - Page 1247

Procedures To initialize the Manager program: ■ Run the Manager program from the Start menu > Programs > Autodesk > Backburner menu. The first time you launch the Manager, it creates the backburner.xml file, which stores the manager configuration settings. The Backburner Manager General Properties dialog also appears the first time you run Manager. In most cases, you can safely proceed by accepting the default settings and clicking OK. Thereafter, you can modify the configuration settings by choosing Edit menu > General Settings to open the General Properties dialog. For the new settings to take effect, you need to close the manager and restart it. The settings in the General Properties dialog are described in depth in Backburner Manager General Properties Dialog on page 6512. To initialize the Server program: 1 Run the Network Rendering Server program from the Start menu > Programs > Autodesk > Backburner menu. The first time you run Server, its General Properties dialog appears. 2 By default, the Subnet Mask field is set to 255.255.255.0 with the Automatic Search option turned on. In most cases, you should leave this option on. The software detects the machine acting as the manager. At this point, do not make any other changes in the software's Backburner Server General Properties dialog. Settings in the this dialog are described in detail in Backburner Server General Properties Dialog on page 6520. 3 Click OK on the Backburner Server General Properties dialog to save the current configuration. 4 The Server starts, and attempts to connect to a Manager automatically. If no Manager is found on the network, the Server times out and reports that the Manager is not responding. 5 If the Server eventually fails to connect to the Manager: ■ Check the subnet mask setting in your TCP/IP network configuration. If it is set to something other than 255.255.255.0, in the Server 6502 | Chapter 20 Rendering