Re: [Maya-Python] Maya 'thin client' startup times?

2018-03-01 Thread Luke Harris
Are people using configuration management tools like puppet / chef / salt / ansible / pdq deploy / sccm to make sure workstations have the correct versions of everything? I have no numbers to back this up - but I imagine a network app server will never be as snappy as a local SSD for big apps li

Re: [Maya-Python] Maya 'thin client' startup times?

2018-02-28 Thread Justin Israel
On Thu, Mar 1, 2018 at 5:10 PM AK Eric wrote: > The first one: "serving Maya from a network filesystem mount and running > it as a local user process". > Cool. Yea that's what we do at my studio, as well as when I was at Imageworks. I doubt it can be 1-to-1 as fast as loading everything off a lo

Re: [Maya-Python] Maya 'thin client' startup times?

2018-02-28 Thread AK Eric
The first one: "serving Maya from a network filesystem mount and running it as a local user process". -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Python Programming for Autodesk Maya" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send

Re: [Maya-Python] Maya 'thin client' startup times?

2018-02-28 Thread Justin Israel
When you talk about a thin client, are you referring to just serving Maya from a network filesystem mount and running it as a local user process? Or are you talking about thin clients where it is actually running on a server and the user is receiving a streamed virtual application? On Thu, Mar 1,

[Maya-Python] Maya 'thin client' startup times?

2018-02-28 Thread AK Eric
We're researching using a Maya 'thin client' distro: Running Maya off a server instead of standalone installs. I'm tired of finding out someone is 3 versions behind (or never installed the updates / patches) and *that's* why they're having so many bugs... The only major problem we've hit is s