[Closed] backburner Error: Duplicate Job Name

I’ve got jobs working now! It was a 64 bit problem. There are incompatibilities with sending jobs between 32 and 64 bit versions, so all our computers are 32 bit now.

You can send jobs to either 32bit or 64bit from either version, but you can’t mix. In other words 64bit versions of Max will only work on 64bit versions of Max through backburner.

EDIT: There is an undocumented (not documented in the help file prior to 2010, but listed when using showinterface) platform option when connecting to the manager.

m = netRender.getManager()
showinterface m

<Interface>Connect <enum>connectMode <string>id port:<enum> [b]platform:<enum>[/b]
     connectMode enums: {#automatic|#manual}
     port enums: {#defaultPort}
     port default value: #defaultPort

platform enums: {#32|#64|#default}
platform default value: #default
#default will be whatever platform the current max session is. Once you have connected to the manager the platform is what all submitted jobs will be until you connect as a different platform. This allows you to use Maxscript to submit jobs from either to platform to the other.

-Eric

boy, that would’ve been handy to know two years ago… we’re all 64 now…

thanks for the info PiXeL_MoNKeY. I’ll stay with my working solution for now but I’ll probably need this in the future.
Richard