[UniMacTech] Compressor render farm network mounts

[Darryl Rosin]

I use autofs to mount smb shares at startup. You need to add a line to the 
end of /etc/auto_master  and create /etc/auto_smb with the mounting 
information for the sharepoint

if my share is at smb://servername/Renderfarm and I want it mounted at 
/smb, with credentials username:password then /etc/auto_master will look 
like this:

#
# Automounter master map
#
+auto_master            # Use directory service
/net                    -hosts          -nobrowse,nosuid
/home                   auto_home       -nobrowse
/Network/Servers        -fstab
/-                      -static
/smb                    auto_smb

and auto_smb (all whitespace is tabs)

Renderfarm      -fstype=smbfs   ://username:password at server/Renderfarm

You can do this with the following terminal commands (NB ownership and 
permissions for auto_smb):

sudo echo -e "/smb\t\t\tauto_smb" >> /etc/auto_master
sudo echo -e 
"Renderfarm\t-fstype=smbfs\t://username:password@server/Renderfarm" >> 
/etc/auto_smb
sudo chown root:wheel /etc/auto_smb
sudo chmod 600 /etc/auto_smb



Darryl Rosin

Server Administrator, Digital Arts Project
Griffith University AUC Developer Fund Coordinator

Research Computing Services
Division of Information Services
South Bank Campus
Griffith University 4111 Australia

d.rosin at griffith.edu.au
t: 04 1876 0956

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From:
Peter Thomas <petthoma at usyd.edu.au>
To:
<unimactech at auc.edu.au>
Date:
31/03/09 06:59 PM
Subject:
[UniMacTech] Compressor render farm network mounts



Dear All,

I too am setting up a render farm.

I would like to use my computer labs at night as a render node and I am 
trying to automate as much as possible including not having to visit the 
render farm.

My understanding is that the computers being used in the render node have 
to have the render source files mounted and I also want to mount the 
render destination as well, (another network share).

My challenge is that my labs are used by students with network mounts  who 
when they  leave them log out which unmounts any network shares. So how do 
I make the render farm shares mount on these computers.

I can probably write a log out script so that when a user logs out the 
render farm network shares  automatically mount but was wondering if 
anyone else has already got a solution for this. Running OD Master with 
bound Clients

Thanks

Peter Thomas
IT Facilities Manager
SYDNEY CONSERVATORIUM OF MUSIC <http://www.music.usyd.edu.au/> 
The University of Sydney
Macquarie Street Sydney NSW 2000 Australia
P 61 2 9351 1331 | F 61 2 9351 1287 | M 61 0423829 837
petthoma at usyd.edu.au

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