I just upgraded to Deadline 3.0 and am trying to get it running as a service, rendering some After Effects CS3 stuff on the render farm. However, none of my renders are working and AE produces errors like “\Oven\render\temp does not exist” (i.e. it can’t see the output directory).
I suspect this is a permissions/access rights problem, so I’ll briefly describe the networking situation. It’s a Windows 2003 domain and there are three render computers (“render05”, “render06”, “render07”), a file server (“oven”), and a workstation (“octavo”) involved here. All of these, plus the domain controller (“chef”), are connected to the same switch. On each of the render computers, the Deadline service is set up so that it logs on under “render”, a domain user account that has full access to the respective input/output folders, i.e. if I log in to any of the render computers as “render”, I can browse to all the necessary folders and open/change/delete files without any problems.
So basically, “render” should have the permissions to do what needs to be done, and the Deadline service is logging in as “render” in order to open AE, but AE is coming back with errors about folders not existing, even though they do.
Any ideas what’s going wrong and how I can fix it?