Demo 1.0 activation on DR-Slaves

[No._12]

Hello,
I´ve been really excited to see the 1.0 release yesterday and immidiately wanted to see how it performs on our litte renderfarm. The Problem is that the 3dsmax version on the slaves is an expired trial so I wont be able to use the GUI to activate the Demo license fot DR rendering ;( Is there any other way to do this? I can't impress the guys at work with Coronas speed if it's not rendering using all the available power!

[krimson]

Yesterday i installed 1.0 on my workstation which went fine.
But then when installing 1.0 on my renderslave, the installation software kept telling me that there was an instance open of 3dsmax and he couldn't instal it.
I checked everything and 3dsmax wasn't running.

Any suggestions how to solve it?
Thanks

[Daniel Döring]

Same problem here. Server log says something about creating a text file, but not about 45 days demo activition.

[Ondra]

Hi,
I added the steps to activate demo with headless 3ds Max here: https://coronarenderer.freshdesk.com/solution/articles/5000564325-activating-license - the steps are identical to activating full license without internet access. Let me know if that helps.

[No._12]

Thank you, now works as expected!

[Monster0605]

Hi,
I added the steps to activate demo with headless 3ds Max here: https://coronarenderer.freshdesk.com/solution/articles/5000564325-activating-license - the steps are identical to activating full license without internet access. Let me know if that helps.

Hi ,
can I Install Corona with method : “activate demo with headless 3ds Max „ on EC2 Instance ? Is Corona Activation Key locks  on Hardware ?

[Ondra]

it is hardware-specific

[krimson]

hello keymaster,

I still haven't got an solution to my problem.
Can you help me please?

Kind regards.

[maru]

Are you refering to this post?

Yesterday i installed 1.0 on my workstation which went fine.
But then when installing 1.0 on my renderslave, the installation software kept telling me that there was an instance open of 3dsmax and he couldn't instal it.
I checked everything and 3dsmax wasn't running.

Have you tried using "just unpack option" in the installer and then copying files manually? It will unpack all plugin files to a specified folder and from there, you can copy them to your max directory.

[krimson]

yes

[krimson]

i will try unpack option thanks

[krimson]

i tried with unpack funtion, the intallation program doesn't say where the files are stored, and with a windows search i didn't find them either (except in the max directory)
also when rendering, my DRserver gave met this error:

[maru]

here you can set where to unpack files

[krimson]

when i want to put the files in the max directory win7 says i don't have permission.

[johan belmans]

Does your account have administrator rights?