Bernard Lebel wrote:
> On 11/18/06, Steffen Dünner <Steffen.Duenner(at)t-online.de> wrote:
>> if you don't use Windows Server but just a WinXP Pro for your
>> server, you're limited to 10 simultaneous connections if I remember
>> correctly. This caused much trouble and hickups, because we had ~35-40
>> machines these times.
>
>
> Can you elaborate on this? What is Deadline doing for the clients to
> NOT use socket connections with the server? The limit of 10 connection
> is just for NFS-type of connections (for example, when you access a
> XSI workgroup).
[...]
Deadline doesn't work with the usual client-server model like most other
rendermanagement softwares do. It relies on a shared folder called
"\\server_ip\DeadlineRepository\" which is a simple Windows / SMB
network share. There is no special server software running on this
computer (except for the built-in network share stuff of Windows of
course). All the "work" is done by the clients themselves: they check
this folder and get / submit their jobs there. We actually got Deadline
working with this DeadlineRepository folder on a Linux server with Samba!
As I said, I'm not a Windows admin, so I hope it is correct what I'm
telling you.
CU... Steffen.
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