I am unable to generate final gather maps via Backburner. I’ve tried adding permissions to the drives and folders where they are being written to. I’ve also done the right-click and run as admin thing but I still get:

error: cannot open temporary map file “mrmapx_tmp.xxxx” for writing.

All my machines are running 2012 and Backburner 2008.1.

*NEW* I ran my local machine as the server along with the other machines and my local machine generates them.

They appear to be mapped drives. Should I use the network path? How would I do that?

If you paths are mapped in your network boxes it should pick them up fine

It’s best to use a UNC path. Eg:-
\\computername\shared_folder\filename.***
That way other machines on the network will find it.

Ingsoc75 09 February 2012 02:45 AM

They appear to be mapped drives.

Provided every render node has exactly the same drive mappings they should. Proper UNC paths are a much better/safer way to deal with network paths.

Should I use the network path? How would I do that?

Yes. Browse to the location but start from Network Places - you should get \\servername\sharename\folder\folder… as the path.

Max 4.2 through 2013.
XP-64 (SP2)
NVidia 9800GTX-512 (Driver 266.58).
Core 2 Quad Q6600 2.4GHz, 8Gb Ram, DX9.0c.

Yeah. I just added the whole network path and it seems to be working fine. I even went through every external file and added the whole network path as well.

I guess I should just work off the server from now on with full network paths to avoid this from now on.

Thanks for the help!