Helo,
I have tested loki render on a network with the folowing setup: master win7 and for the moment grunt a ubuntu machine.
loki works if ,,Automatic file transfer,, is enabled and textures are packed into blend file.
The problem is that i need the other options ,,Automatic file transfer,, disabled having projects large enough and rendering with yafaray(who have some random problems with large number of textures packed).
I have mounted the cifs shared network drive(placed on the windows pc) on the ubuntu machine with write read privileges(checked from whithin blender,and file browser) and disabled ,,Automatic file transfer,, on both master and grunt.
Job does not render
the help file mentions about having the same path on all computers ....a bit unclear for me about how to do it....???
it could be about my windows share not correctly mounted in ubuntu?
I am about to build a small(5 nodes) renderfarm running ubuntu connected to a nas server in the future so i am testing loki for that purpouse.
THANKS
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Hi psv, Windows and Linux file paths are different. If you disable Automatic file transfer, then the master and all grunts must have the same path to your project, e.g. X:\projects\coconut1\coconut.blend', or if you're going all linux, something like '/mnt/share/projects/coconut1/coconut.blend'. Since the Ubuntu system has Unix paths but the rest of your farm is Windows, it can't be a master or grunt, it's only job is to serve the Windows share for the farm. Hope this helps.
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Helo,
I have tested loki render on a network with the folowing setup: master win7 and for the moment grunt a ubuntu machine.
loki works if ,,Automatic file transfer,, is enabled and textures are packed into blend file.
The problem is that i need the other options ,,Automatic file transfer,, disabled having projects large enough and rendering with yafaray(who have some random problems with large number of textures packed).
I have mounted the cifs shared network drive(placed on the windows pc) on the ubuntu machine with write read privileges(checked from whithin blender,and file browser) and disabled ,,Automatic file transfer,, on both master and grunt.
Job does not render
the help file mentions about having the same path on all computers ....a bit unclear for me about how to do it....???
it could be about my windows share not correctly mounted in ubuntu?
I am about to build a small(5 nodes) renderfarm running ubuntu connected to a nas server in the future so i am testing loki for that purpouse.
THANKS
Hi psv, Windows and Linux file paths are different. If you disable Automatic file transfer, then the master and all grunts must have the same path to your project, e.g. X:\projects\coconut1\coconut.blend', or if you're going all linux, something like '/mnt/share/projects/coconut1/coconut.blend'. Since the Ubuntu system has Unix paths but the rest of your farm is Windows, it can't be a master or grunt, it's only job is to serve the Windows share for the farm. Hope this helps.