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Hey guys

I work at a studio where we have set up an external octane renderfarm and access it via the OctaneRender Network preferences.

We are 7 guys on 7 different computers and everytime someone needs to use the farm (Or needs it the most) it goes "WHO HAS THE FARM!?" in the office. Sometimes its not a problem and a guy jumps off the farm, but sometimes, for whatever reason, its not clear who has it - someone is in a meeting, someone uses the farm without even knowing it etc. Then the detective work sets in and workflow destroyed.

Does anyone have the same issue at their studio? Is there a solution?

Thanks!

hi there.

OTOY seems to be aware of this & they are doing work to improve situation, here is a line taken from latest standalone update, that I guess is going to be available as functionality in plugins as well soon after =)

"The daemon list shows the computer name of the master that is bound to a daemon, which allows you to figure out who is currently occupying it. We will add a button to "steal" a slave from another master in one of the next releases."

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glimpse wrote:hi there.

OTOY seems to be aware of this & they are doing work to improve situation, here is a line taken from latest standalone update, that I guess is going to be available as functionality in plugins as well soon after =)

"The daemon list shows the computer name of the master that is bound to a daemon, which allows you to figure out who is currently occupying it. We will add a button to "steal" a slave from another master in one of the next releases."

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ahh nice! Thanks:)