Setting up a bin server?

I sent a question in to tech support and they responded by sending me the Fusion 7 manual...

I have followed all the instructions to get a bin server up and running on my file server. I double checked my setup by checking it against Isaac's old YouTube video on how to set up a bin server and as far as I can tell I've done everything right. I can see the service running on the server and I have no problems accessing the machine through my network. But, no matter what I do I can't connect to the bin server from Fusion.

Unfortunately the docs are really slim on information on setting up and configuring a bin server, so I'm stuck. Since Blackmagic doesn't know how to set one up, is there anyone out there who has any information they can share? It can't be this difficult, right?

Thanks,

Paul

do you use commercial version of Fusion? I mean do you use Studio version?

maybe

will help?

Yes I'm running Fusion Studio.

I can see it running as a service on the server, but I can't connect to it from Fusion. No matter what I do I get "access denied".

-Paul

Sorry for asking the obvious:
Is the firewall not interfering (on the server and client)?
You might try to disable the firewall for a moment and check if that helps.

I've checked and doubled checked - everything is going through the firewall just fine. eyeonScript services for Fusion Studio and eyeonServer for Fusion Studio both have entries in the firewall settings.

I've tried accessing it by name and by IP address with no luck in either case. I've tried with user name & password and using guest, and neither work.

I've used this machine as a license server / file server for a few years now. It's set up as my Deadline server as well, and I've never had an issue before with anything connecting to it.

The only error on the server's event viewer log I can see that stands out as odd (and I don't think this is related) is: Unable to bind to the underlying transport for [::]:80. The IP Listen-Only list may contain a reference to an interface which may not exist on this machine. The data field contains the error number.

It's certainly frustrating for sure!

-Paul

The only error on the server's event viewer log I can see that stands out as odd (and I don't think this is related) is: Unable to bind to the underlying transport for [::]:80. The IP Listen-Only list may contain a reference to an interface which may not exist on this machine. The data field contains the error number.

My interpretation of that message is that a piece of software is attempting to use the common HTTP web service port 80 with the IPv6 (128-bit addresses, compared to the 32-bit addresses of the routine IPv4) wildcard address. Perhaps IPv6 is not enabled on your machine, or perhaps there is already a web service running on that machine which has already grabbed [::]:80.

I'm not sure how the bin service is configured, but if it's attempting to be an HTTP server, that could well be your problem. Perhaps someone from the Fusion development team could comment on what ports the bin server is expected to use by default, and if that can be customized to avoid conflict with other network services.

I am not sure if the bin server uses port 80. If it did, Skype is known to occupy local webservers, if it runs before the webserver.

I am pretty sure it was a different port, but not sure which. I have no FuStudio to test here.

Are you sure you can ping the server:

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ping HOSTNAME

Btw. what comes up when you add the bin server in the preferences?
You could also try using the IP instead.

It's been a while and I haven't had time to mess with this, but the interesting thing I found is - my server responds to ping requests with an IPV6 response.

I'm going to take an hour or so today to muck around.

Setting up a bin server should not be this hard.

Hey Paul, did you find a solution?

I did some digging and found over on Underwater Steak there's a cached post from VFXPedia where it goes into more detail about setting up Bin Servers. Unfortunately I haven't had time to go through it and see if it fixes my issues.

Ultimately IMHO it should be entirely on Blackmagic's shoulders to deliver Fusion with all the installers necessary to make every feature work properly. End users shouldn't be required to have an IT department or an on staff technical director just to get something like a bin server set up.

-Paul