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- From: samurai@cs.mcgill.ca (Darcy BROCKBANK)
- Subject: Re: multiple host renderman rendering?
- Message-ID: <1992Nov6.143116.13364@cs.mcgill.ca>
- Keywords: netinfo, locations
- Sender: news@cs.mcgill.ca (Netnews Administrator)
- Organization: SOCS - Mcgill University, Montreal, Canada
- References: <1992Nov4.065228.13194@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu> <1992Nov4.145301.6143@stone.com>
- Date: Fri, 6 Nov 1992 14:31:16 GMT
- Lines: 63
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- In article <1992Nov4.145301.6143@stone.com> andrew@stone.com writes:
- >In article <1992Nov4.065228.13194@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu>
- >phayes@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu (Patrick W Hayes) writes:
- >>
- >> How does the multiple host rendering work in 3.0? All I ever get in
- >> the render panel is "localhost." Is there a "render-host manager" or
- >something?
- >> Do I make some netinfo entry? I couldn't find the docs on this, a
- >pointer
- >> to the right manual is all I should need, but then, digital lib. came up
- >> with nothing.
- >>
- >> Patrick Hayes
- >> pwhayes+@osu.edu
- >>
- >What a hassle, eh? Oh the hidden magic. Lots of people are calling up and
- >saying "Reality doesn't render", and we are thinking, "hmm, render's here
- >fine".
- >
- >Here's how to publish other rendering hosts: [There may be a better way,
- >if so, speak up! This was all gleaned by trial and error]:
- >
-
-
- There's an app in /NextDeveloper/Demos call RenderManager.app. If you run
- it as root, it is supposed to go into NetInfo and publish your host as
- a public render host.
- \
- However, I never got it to work quite right (like this is a big suprise,
- does anything on 3.0 work quite right?) and had to go in and do by hand
- what Andrew said...
-
- - db
-
- >1] Launch NetInfoManager
- >2] Open your root domain
- >3] IF there is not a top level directory named "locations", add it
- >4] IF "locations" does not have a subdirectory named "renderers", create
- >it. It has two properties: name, which is "renderers", and "_writers",
- >which should be "*" if you want everyone to access these hosts.
- >5] Now, add as subdirectories, new entries to "renderers", one for each
- >host on your network which can provide public rendering. For, example, our
- >directory has, "dog", "scud", "buddha", etc. These final directories have
- >two properties as well, the ubiquitous name, which is the host's name; and
- >a "note" field, which may contain a note which appears on the Render
- >Panel, such as "Gone Renderin", or "A bad day rendering is better..."
- >
- >In summary, this will be the structure of the new NetInfo directories:
- >
- >locations -> renderers -> hostA
- > hostB
- > ...
- > hostN
- >
- >Any more info on this stuff, please email me or post...
- >
- >--
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- >!! Andrew Stone !! (505) 345-4800 !!
- >!! andrew@stone.com <> Stone Design Corp !!
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