Jon Barry

I am trying to render via command line on a remote host using:
mantra -f test.ifd

I receive the following error:

mantra: Mantra tile imager open failure: Tiled Image File: 1 file(s)
mantra: Could not open imager

Any thoughts on what might be causing this?

Thanks.

I did notice that we have multiple “Render-NonCommercial” licenses.
There are different License Ids associated with them.

One license id has its IP Mask set to: +.+.*.*
The other is set to: *.*.*.* (which should work)

How does the application pick out the correct license id? Can I specifically tell it which license to use?

goldleaf
Try hostname.local; so if the license is being served from a computer called bazooka, set your machines to look at bazooka.local.

I couldn't get that to work. I don't think the license server is “local” to the node I am trying to use. They have different subnets.

I noticed this on the sideeffects site [sidefx.com]:

A license may be keyed to be used on a specific network class or a list of specific networks. By default, Class C masked keys are issued unless specified otherwise.

The mask we need is +.+.+.* (for local machines) and 10.125.*.* (for the currently problematic ones). Is this something that has to be changed by side effects or just changed in our config file (sesinetd)?