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Maya Plugin Error

Hi David,



This “211 error code” has been popping up a lot lately. At the bottom of

the slave log, Maya is printing out these error messages:



0: STDOUT: Error: File not found.:

//Mirus/3d/Community_Files/Western_National/CA/the_orsini/scenes/plan_L.mb



0: STDOUT: Error: Cannot load scene

“//Mirus/3d/Community_Files/Western_National/CA/the_orsini/scenes/plan_L.mb”.

Please check the scene name.





So for some reason Maya can’t find/open up the scene file. This seems to

be a Maya problem, and Deadline is just the messenger in this case. I’ve

read that in the past this error could be related to the path to the

Maya scene itself (ie: spaces or underscores, or incorrect

forward/backward slashes), however I tested Maya 2008 with a UNC path

almost identical to yours here (using underscores and ‘/’ slashes), and

it rendered fine.



So the only other possibility I can think of is that there may be a

network issue. A couple questions:

  1. Can you confirm that the slaves have the necessary permissions to

    access the file

    “//Mirus/3d/Community_Files/Western_National/CA/the_orsini/scenes/plan_L.mb”?

    The easiest way to do this would be to open Maya on one of your slave

    machines and try to load the scene.
  2. Is the server that “//Mirus/3d/…” is on running a server operating

    system, or is it a normal XP/2000 machine? Non-server OS’s have a remote

    connection limitation of 10, so if you have more machines accessing it

    than allowed, machines could lose their connections.
  3. Have you tried submitting the scene with the “Submit Maya Scene File”

    checked? This copies the scene file locally to the slave machine before

    the render begins, so that Maya doesn’t have to load the scene over the

    network.



    Cheers,
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