I have 2 machines with mapped network drives, both able to see the main machine just fine. But if I map to local paths DR won't work - I get missing maps errors. As soon as I change to UNC it works.
Local paths are something completely different. This thread was about using mapped drives. So if you use at your local machine a path like N:\textures\wood\shinywood.tga in a material, where N is mapped to \\server\stuff\ (with "textures" as subdirectory of your share root) and
the user(!) which runs drserver.exe on your slave also has this share mapped to N:\ everything is peachy.
But of course if you use at your local machine e.g. C:\data\textures\wood\shinywood.tga and your slave even does not have this c:\data\[..,] directory with the same maps it fails. BUT if your local machine shares this "C:\data" and you point to your local directory by using UNC, your local machine acts like a server and it works. Is this what you did?
Nutshell:
There are three different ways to point at assets:
1. Local Pahts (nono for DR/BB)
2. Mapped drives (quite ok but not very fail safe)
3. UNC (fail save)
Just imagine opening your scene at the remote slave: paths have to be configured simply in such way that the scene would render fine when opened interactively there
by the user who runs drserver.exe
Good Luck