Render across subnets

Deadline
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Hello All.
We have a repository on one subnet and we want to add machines from another subnet to our render_farm. We haven’t gotten this to work, but from reading the threads on wake-up packets across subnets it looks like it is possible. We have been having the repository on a windows share and I have done some research in to acquiring a NAS to be it’s new home. Does anyone have experience with this? Any help would be appreciated.

Thanks

Bin

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Hi Bin,

What problem(s) are you having? Can the machines from the other subnet access the repository? If they can, are you getting errors when you render? Any specifics you can send us would be very helpful.

Thanks!

  • Ryan
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Hey RRussell thanks for your reply and your help before.
The machines do not see the share at all windows name are not shared between the switches here. I don’t know what they have for hardware, but the main switch does not serve win names.The rackmounts on the same switch see the repository. The others do not. We need the extra disk space, so I’ve looked into putting a NAS with static IP on one switch, in the hopes of bridging the subnets that way. Maybe a samba or a regular nfs share would be visible to the new subnet while the win share service talks to the home subnet.

Bin

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Would using the server’s IP address instead of the host name work? I guess that’s something you’ll be trying with the NAS, but it would be interesting to see if using the IP allows machines in other subnets to connect to the windows share.

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I am not sure if the Ip will allow us to bridge across separate name servers on different switches. I think, as you say, the local win machines will see a win share and those on the other subnet will see a samba share or something of the like. Until now I have been mapping network directories. Machines that connect to the repository have full access. Users that connect to the repository based on their win login have access to the job folder within the repository for submitting jobs and access to another shared directory for collecting finished renders.

Thanks again

Bin