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<FONT FACE="Lucida Grande"><SPAN STYLE='font-size:11pt'>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.<BR>
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Pascal<BR>
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Pascal Grosvenor<BR>
Faculty Computing Support,<BR>
Design, Architecture & Building<BR>
University of Technology, Sydney<BR>
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1. Compressor render farm network mounts (Peter Thomas)<BR>
2. Re: Compressor render farm network mounts (Darryl Rosin)<BR>
3. AD authentication and restricting logins (Darryl Rosin)<BR>
4. Re: AD authentication and restricting logins (Matiu Carr)<BR>
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Date: Tue, 31 Mar 2009 19:48:24 +1100<BR>
From: Peter Thomas <<a href="petthoma@usyd.edu.au">petthoma@usyd.edu.au</a>><BR>
Subject: [UniMacTech] Compressor render farm network mounts<BR>
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Dear All,<BR>
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I too am setting up a render farm.<BR>
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I would like to use my computer labs at night as a render node and I am<BR>
trying to automate as much as possible including not having to visit the<BR>
render farm.<BR>
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My understanding is that the computers being used in the render node have to<BR>
have the render source files mounted and I also want to mount the render<BR>
destination as well, (another network share).<BR>
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My challenge is that my labs are used by students with network mounts who<BR>
when they leave them log out which unmounts any network shares. So how do I<BR>
make the render farm shares mount on these computers.<BR>
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I can probably write a log out script so that when a user logs out the<BR>
render farm network shares automatically mount but was wondering if anyone<BR>
else has already got a solution for this. Running OD Master with bound<BR>
Clients<BR>
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Thanks<BR>
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Peter Thomas<BR>
IT Facilities Manager<BR>
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