[HUTCHISONHATCH]

Available to me is a classroom with some 25 computers on a network. To date, I have only been able to activate 12 as "distant light" rendering nodes. What am I doing wrong?
I am running Windows 2000 pro on a dual processesor workstation. The classroom computers are all p-4s running Windows XP.
After activating 12 nodes, when I try to activate the thirteenth, I get the following complaint -
"no more connections can be made to this computer because there are already as many connections as the computer can accept".
All computers in the classroom will connect equally well as long as the total # has not exceeded 12.
For the record I have entered 25 as the max # of nodes in the options panel.
How do I get by this?

[Mark]

Unfortunately, you've reached the maximum allowable network connections for Windows - nothing to do with Lightwave/screamernet.

The only way that I know you'll get around this is to make the master machine a Windows Server OS with the requisite number of Client access licenses...

[HUTCHISONHATCH]

Thanks for the response!
I figured that it might be something like this.

LIGHTNET has a capability to connect to its nodes using TCP/IP protocol - do you know if that will get me around this issue?

[Mark]

Unsure to tell the truth. I suspect though that the limit will still remain as the connection limit is on a per session/file basis with Windows and you'll still need a share to dump the completed images.

Give it a try though by all means and let us all know how you get along.

[rincewind]

You could give amleto a try rayserver.com

This does not need to use shared drives and should allow you to connect all 25 machines. There's a 14 day trail on the website so give it a try, see if it works.