Deadline Slave under Centor 5.5

Deadline
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Hi,
I think I had this problem before but I can’t remember how to solve it.
Why Slave only works under root account?

I mean, when I start slave under an user account, it works but can’t get a task… And on Monitors, it says that client is with ALL tasks. And nothing is rendering.
When I start slave as root, everything goes ok… One task per time, and render works.

Any suggestion?

Thanks

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The problem is read/write permissions (superficially the user is able to read, but not write).
The root user has access to read and write everything, so there’s no problem there.

Deadline expects anyone who runs Deadline client tools (Monitor, Slave, etc) to have permission to read/write/delete all files in the repository.

You may need to change your umask to 002 to allow newly created files and folders in the repository to be readable and writable to the group. Then add all users who will use Deadline into that group and have the repository owned by the new group.

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Normal user has the same permissions as root in repository…
I think that’s not the problem… The user can read/write to all files and folders inside the repository.

In monitor it shows like my client is rendering all frames at the same time… Only one client with all frames… And on the client, no render at all.

Any ideas?

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I’m uploading two images that show my problem…

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monitor.gif

Thanks,
Luiz Garrido

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Since you’re using CentOS, are you sharing the repository over NFS? If that’s the case, do you think you could try using the ‘all_squash’ property in the export so that every user that connects is mapped to the same UID? I think my /etc/exports was something akin to the following:

/home/edwin.amsler/nfs 192.168.2.0/24(rw,all_squash,insecure) # Insecure required for OSX

Then owned everything to ‘nobody:nogroup’

If you’re using another file sharing mechanism, list the relevant config information and I’ll do more digging over here.

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Thanks…
That’s was not my problem but helped me with a solution…

My network map is CIFS. I rechecked my fstab and without using uid and gid it was giving me that error. I added gid and uid to it and now deadline client is working under the user account.

Thnaks,
Luiz Garrido