Hey all!

So I managed to create a network drive and I was able to send an hqsim node to the farm and it was successsful!
However, when I went to check if it made the bgeo files, it made none.

I checked the logs and this is what it spit out:


ALF_PROGRESS 0%
ALF_PROGRESS 1%
ALF_PROGRESS 2%
Error running callback:
Traceback (most recent call last):
File “&lt;stdin&gt;”, line 1, in <module>
File “CPROGRA~1/SIDEEF~1/HOUDIN~1.327/houdini/python2.7libs\hou.py”, line 51191, in render
return _hou.RopNode_render(*args, **kwargs)
OperationFailed: The attempted operation failed.
Warning: Could not create directory ‘Qprojects/cache’.
Could not create directory ‘Qprojects/cache’.
Error: Failed to save output to file “Qprojects/cache/Test.0001.bgeo.sc”.
Warning: Could not create directory ‘Qprojects/cache’.
Error: Failed to save output to file “Qprojects/cache/Test.0002.bgeo.sc”.
Failed to save output to file “Qprojects/cache/Test.0003.bgeo.sc”.


Does anyone know why it can't write files to the drive?


Thanks for your time

- You may have a permissions issue on the shared drive; it may not be letting Houdini create folders/write files to the drive
- Another possibility: On the Hqueue Render node –> ‘Advanced’ Tab, take a look at the “Create Directories” parameter at the bottom. Read the tooltip, and try setting those up.
- If that doesn't work, try creating the save directories by hand

Hey, sorry I replied late

So I've tried changing security permissions on the folders and drive by right-clicking and modifying the settings. This did not work(unless there is another way to do this)

I also tried to create a directory and it didn't work, idk if im setting it up incorrectly. I set it it up like this:

Directory Path - $HIP/cache ( still an empty folder)

it continues to say cannot output file

When I manually save to disk from the filecache node it works, so I don't think its a permissions issue. I just need this to work for the farm im making so I can continue working while it caches on the other computer