Small update (that’s really more of a note to remind myself where we are at):
We narrowed the issue down to SMB connections being sucky. Basically, my repo is on a server named “fast”. I also map a few drives on that server. So I can’t use deadline’s mapped drive features because a connection is automatically made to that server (via unc path) when launcher is loaded, which means that subsequent drives can’t be mapped via deadline.
In the end, I THINK I should switch the server my repo is loaded onto, so its completely separate and isolated from my mapped drives. I’ll have to see what I can string together