run as service question

Deadline
1

i like the ability to remote desktop to a render node and see what Max is rendering, it helps trouble shoot.

Is there a way to see the render window if deadline has been installed as a service?

2

I don’t think this is possible. Window services are not supposed to interact with the Desktop, so if the Max VFB is hidden during rendering, there isn’t much Deadline can do about it. Currently we don’t do anything different when rendering jobs as a service, so something out of Deadline’s control is probably suppressing the VFB.

Cheers,

  • Ryan
3

Services can’t interact with the desktop. But client applications can talk to services. But that client doesn’t exist.

Ben.

4

so there is no way to have the slave installed as a service, but still be able to run it as a regular program when logged in?

5

Unfortunately, no, it’s one way or the other. If you want to run the slave in regular mode when logged in, you would have to shutdown the service and restart the slave manually (or as part of a login script), but obviously that’s not what you’re looking for because you wouldn’t want to stop the slave service mid-render when someone logs in.

Cheers,

  • Ryan
6

I would add that the slave doesn’t run as a service but it’s launched by the service and thus runs in that same session as the service and still has no ui. Similarly, 3dsmax or whatever the application also runs as a child process of slave, also in that session. But piping the frame buffer would be more difficult to do than redirecting the output of the slave.

Ben.