[UniMacTech] Re: Compressor render farm network mounts

[Pascal Grosvenor]

For our renderfarm we have mac clients bound to an OS X server OD master.  I setup an AFP network volume - which we mount at /Volumes/Renderfarm (using the automount option in Server Admin).  That way the volume is available as soon as the computer has booted up, and stays there after students log out.  We've had occasional file permissions issues with our setup, but for the most part it works very well.

Regards
Pascal


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Pascal Grosvenor
Faculty Computing Support,
Design, Architecture & Building
University of Technology, Sydney
ph   9514 8944



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Date: Tue, 31 Mar 2009 19:48:24 +1100
From: Peter Thomas <petthoma at usyd.edu.au>
Subject: [UniMacTech] Compressor render farm network mounts
To: <unimactech at auc.edu.au>
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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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