Workstation Slaves Not picking up frames

Deprecated Deadline 8 Discussion
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ver 8.1.5.4
3DS Max 2016 +Vray
Windows 7

We have a series of servers in a small farm as well as all of our production workstations. I have all of these servers in a single group. When I submit a job to that group, all of the servers pick up a frame, but none of the workstations. I have deleted and rebuilt the group a few times, double-triple checked that I don’t have anything white/black listed, and it doesn’t seem to matter which workstation submits the job (I can submit a job successfully from any workstation in my office, but they never render a frame; only the servers do). I’m not sure where to look next but I’m open to suggestions.

Thanks in advance.

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a quick update after some additional testing. The workstations seem to work fine if I remove the proxy server and just the the UNC path for the repository.

So it’s something to do with the proxy server?

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Hey Stan, This definitely sounds like a bug in the proxy server.

Are all your workstations/servers running windows 7?
Is the machine you are running the proxy on running windows 7 as well?

Thanks
Bhavek.

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All of the workstations (that won’t pick up the job) are Win7. The server that runs the repository is Windows Server 2012. The remaining nodes are a mix of Server 2012, Server 2008 R2, and Win7.

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Thanks Stan.

Just out of curiosity, what timezone are you running in?

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Eastern Time Zone.

We had issues with the proxy server before, but it was resolved in an earlier build.

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Thanks Stan,

I see you are on 8.1.5.4

Try upgrading to 8.1.5.11. If it still does not work, could you please send me a db dump so I can re-create your setup locally.

Thanks
Bhavek