[naxos]

Hello there,

Tech question here :
I started a network render on PC#1... only this one renders because second one was in use...

Then i could start server on PC#2...
of course, a missing map jpg made it fail... so i fixed that (copy missing in default map path), then i want to restart server...

no way : it always in "failed" mode in manager / mxcl display...
tried to stop / start server on PC#2 again : no way...

of course i don't want to stop the render on PC#1, only reset the server PC#2...
is there any way to do this ?
some kind of "restart server", clear server / add again... refresh list, etc ???

regards.

[rusteberg]

from my experience, you have to shut down the entire operation and start it back up. close out mxcl, manager and servers then re-open.
once a server fails, it seems to become retarded after that until it's refreshed with a new manager... at least that's what i've experienced.

there's not a whole lot to worry about. if you've had PC#1 running for quite some time and you don't want to loose that, then you can possibly stop PC#1 and save it's MXI as a seed to later merge with the other two MXI's after re rendering.

Or best solution, just take this as a valuable experience->Just leave PC#1 rendering, and load the same .mxs on PC#2 then manually merge the .mxi once complete....

does this make sense?

[naxos]

those solutions are clever, but it's a shame not to be able to reset a server state...

[rusteberg]

true, but sometimes you just have to work with what ya' got......