What I found helpful is to have for example setup like this: 1st computer: hard drive with letter W: and projects on it 2nd computer: mapped hardrive also to use letter W: but pointing to network location ie shared drive from 1st computer. In that case you don;t need to think about all those network paths and stuff... it will always be W:\[project folder] no matter which computer you use.
So w: is assigned letter to 1st computer work hard drive with projects on it, that whole drive is shared and then on second computer you map network drive and assign it same letter, in my case w: Hope it helps On Mon, Dec 2, 2013 at 10:01 AM, David Rivera < [email protected]> wrote: > Hi, I recently wrote to the guys at Thinkbox software: Deadline, to get a > free evaluation from them. > I got the software download link, and installed the Repository on my > "server" machine (which is another normal machine on the network), and the > executable apps (monitor, launcher, slave, etc..) on the slaves. > > I created my scene on a slave machine named "A_machine" and send the > current job to deadline. > I activate my second slave "B_Machiner" (I´m on free version with 2 or > less slaves), and on the monitor (I activate the monitor from A_Machine, to > put my B_Machine available as slave for the render). > > My softimage project targets the output render to itself through network > path : //Machine_A/xsi_project/Render_Pictures so my B_Machine could have > access to the render. I also shared the folder so it can > be accessed through the network. > > But my Machine_B keeps thinking the render should be locally (as the local > path of my A_Machine) and thus > generates ERROR 200 - file location not available. > > I´ve read the manual and it mentions all locations should be available not > as relative but as complete path location, which is what I´ve checked > through the entire process. > I might be overlooking somewhere, but I have no previous experience with > Deadline. > > Could someone lead me into the right process of creating jobs and sending > them through a network of 2 machines? Please? > Thanks. > > David. >
