I was having the same problem as above and solved it this way. Without server running as a service,

shift right pick on server.exe and select “run as”
use the admin account that your service will run under
once the server has connected to the manager the correct xml will be created.

Good luck

Gregory

Gregory Mertens
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I have a new twist on this old issue.

My situation is almost the same as the OP.  With the difference being our established farm is Win XP 32-bit.  I am trying to add a Win XP x64 node to the farm.  If I run server.exe while logged in as the service account, everything works.  When run it as a service using the same account, I get the following in the log file.

2010/02/25 11:17:28 ERR Error accepting connection: An operation was attempted on something that is not a socket. (0x2736).
2010/02/25 11:17:28 WRN Error 0x00002736 from main TCP server thread
2010/02/25 11:17:32 INF Starting backburner Server
2010/02/25 11:17:32 INF Loading plugin: Autodesk 3ds Max Design 2010 (32-bit) Renderer Plugin from C:\Program Files (x86)\Autodesk\3ds Max Design 2010\Network\max_server32.task
2010/02/25 11:17:32 INF Loading plugin: Autodesk 3ds Max Design 2010 (64-bit) Renderer Plugin from C:\Program Files\Autodesk\3ds Max Design 2010\Network\max_server32.task
2010/02/25 11:17:32 INF Loading plugin: Command Line Tool from C:\Program Files (x86)\Autodesk\Backburner\cmd.task
2010/02/25 11:17:32 INF Service started.
2010/02/25 11:19:27 WRN Could not find a Manager. Will keep trying…
2010/02/25 11:20:47 ERR Error accepting connection: An operation was attempted on something that is not a socket. (0x2736).
2010/02/25 11:20:47 WRN Error 0x00002736 from main TCP server thread

Any thoughts?

CPU: Dual Intel Xeon X5570 @ 2.93GHz
RAM: 12.00 GB
Video Card: Nvidia Quadro FX 4800
OS: Windows 7 Pro x64
Max Version: Design 2012

Turns out it was the Windows firewall on the local machine and not the Corp. firewall.  Thanks Samab.

http://usa.autodesk.com/adsk/ser...d=15084607&linkID=9242258

CPU: Dual Intel Xeon X5570 @ 2.93GHz
RAM: 12.00 GB
Video Card: Nvidia Quadro FX 4800
OS: Windows 7 Pro x64
Max Version: Design 2012

Ok so I am having the problem of Service not Registering (yet running Back Burner as a standalone program works fine) I have a render farm, it needs to run as a service, there is no way I am running around starting the standalone up on each machine I am running 2011 SO…

HERE’s THE SOLUTION.

First of all I think this is a bug and someone at Autodesk needs to fix it because it has been around since 2008.  The default setting for the <AutoSearch> parameter in the backburner.xml file ought to be 1.  Someone at Autodesk mistakenly has this set to 0, and this is what is causing us this headache.

I am on windows 7 (same thing on server 2008 r2 etc).

Start the service up one time and then stop it, it will make sure that the user profile is created for the user you run Backburner under. Find the user’s profile that you are running backburner under (and it should be someone else than the default) in the c:\users\ directory.  Mine happens to be called “backburner”.  Find the backburner.xml file in the following path

C:\Users\[backburner user]\AppData\Local\backburner\backburner.xml

Edit this file in something that can read and format xml like dreamweaver.

Find the <AppDetails> section

Change the value <AutoSearch>0</AutoSearch> to <AutoSearch>1</AutoSearch>

If you want to deploy this file to all of your other servers do the following:
Delete the following two entries completely.  I mean the whole line including the XMLtags.  If you don’t delete the whole line, BB will error when it starts up.
<ServerName>[somename]</ServerName>
<ServerMAC>[somemac]</ServerMAC>

Save.

You now have an XML file that you can deploy to all of your render servers.

Don’t thank me, write Autodesk a note instead yelling at them.  http://usa.autodesk.com/adsk/ser...id=5600504&linkID=9241177

Hi there!
I’ve actually done the whole thing. XML is OK, the firewall is OK too. I’ve tried any other ways and I’m still getting this in BB Server:
INF Loading plugin: Autodesk 3ds Max 2012 (64-bit) Renderer Adapter form Backburner Adapter Plugin
INF Loading plugin: Command Job Adapter v2012 from Backburner Plugin
WRN Could not find a Manager. Will keep trying…

What’s wrong with this?
I must say, this occurred after upgrading to 7.

Thanks

Hello. I’m using backburner on a single workstation. Win7 x64. Max 2011. When I send the job orders it starts ok, and I usually do this at nighttime; then the next morning I come to the machine and the server is absent. No nodes at all. Some jobs complete, others do not, no “missing” error report. It’s like my IP expired and after renewal it won’t register. The “run as” approach could fix this issue for me? I use backburner to let the machine do the rendering job alone at night instead of wasting my daytime.