RUSH RENDER QUEUE
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V 102.40 09/26/02

How To Configure..


  1. Configuring 'rush -lj' and 'rush -laj' Reports
  2. Configuring 'donemail' for Windows
  3. Configuring User's Password to Never Expire
  4. Rush User Access to Network Server
  5. Fix Your System Path

Configuring 'rush -lj' and 'rush -laj' Reports

Configuring 'donemail' for Windows

Configuring Users to be Members of the Administrator Group

  1. Login as Administrator

  2. Invoke the User Manager:

    Start | Settings | Control Panel | Users And Passwords

  3. Double-click on the user's name

  4. Choose the "Group Membership" tab

  5. Click on the 'Other:' radio button, and select "Administrators"

  6. Hit Apply.


Configuring User's Password to Never Expire

  1. Login as Administrator

  2. Invoke the User Manager:

    Start | Settings | Control Panel | Users And Passwords | Advanced | Advanced User Management | Users

  3. Double-click on the user's name

  4. Choose "Password never expires"


Rush User Access to Network Server

It's important for the Rushd service to have read/write access to your network server to prevent this problem.

Having access means being able to login as that user, and not get one of these dialogs when you try to browse over to the network disk:

To prevent that, make sure your disk server has that user configured with a correct password, or open the share permissions until you can login as the user, and access the server without getting that error.

If you're disk server supplies its disks via Samba, you can open the permissions to the disk (note green text): 

# Disk entry excerpt from smb.conf
[jobs]
   comment = Jobs Disk
   path = /raid/jobs
   read only = no
   public = yes                   <-- public access
   guest ok = yes                 <-- guest access
   force create mode = 0666
   force directory mode = 0777
   hide dot files = no

This will open up permissions to your disk such that, for sure, you won't get the above dialog after you login and access the server.

Then tighten down security from there, making sure you don't re-induce the dialog. Make sure you have your Windows machines set up to correctly work with Samba to manage password logins correctly.

Fix your System Path

Installs of Houdini have been known to break the Windows system path such that standard programs like more and ping give 'Command not found' errors.

To fix this under Windows 2000:

  1. Login as Administrator, and bring up the "Environment Variables" panel:

    Start | Control Panel | System | Advanced | Environment Variables

  2. Under 'System variables', Double-Click on the "PATH" variable

  3. Carefully insert at the *very beginning* of the "Variable Value" field:

    C:\WINNT;C:\WINNT\SYSTEM32;

    There should be NO SPACES, and there should be a ';' at the end of what you typed, so that it separates your entry from the settings that follow it.

  4. Hit Apply, and OK.

  5. Open up a new DOS window, and see if commands like 'ping' and 'more' work now. Only new DOS windows will be affected by the change.