Avoiing Multiple Monitors (Screens) for dedicated Slaves

Deadline
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Hi
I have 5 systems and licence for 4 systems. I plan to set up 1 system as the server (repository), the other 4 systems as dedicated render slaves.( I do not wish to use them for any thing else except for renders). My question is, can I avoid multiple monitors (screens) for all the clients and instead use only the monitor of the Server. Though with the job monitor, I can see the job status on all these machines but I cannot actually see the renders as they are done without having montors (screens) for each of the system.
I would like to know if there is a process through which I can eliminate these 4 extra monitors and use it elsewhere. I have installed TightVNC viewer, but was wondering if there is a better practise.

Rgds

GP

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Remoting software like VNC should work fine here. Sometimes it’s still nice to keep one extra monitor that you can plugin into your slaves though in case you need to troubleshoot something and the VNC server isn’t responding.

Cheers,

  • Ryan
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Thanks Ryan. Yes the idea of a standby monitor is good. Just wondering if this is the way done in Render Farms? Would be very nice if deadline could split the screen and show the renders (Wishlist )

Rgds,
GP

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With Deadline 6, you can connect to the slave on the remote machine and stream its render log.
thinkboxsoftware.com/deadlin … _Slave_Log

Cheers,

  • Ryan