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Hi everyone,
I'm trying to use every computer I have at my disposal to create a mini render farm for work I'm now doing from home. Right now, the machines I have set up are my main workstation, a little dinky PC I have for the family, and two laptops, one a PC and the other a Mac. The Mac however is having a problem with, at least from what I can tell, simply the slash vs. backslash conventions.
Network drives are all set up and everything, every machine is running the Fusion 9 Studio Render Node, I have Studio on the main workstation, the other nodes render fine. I have user Path Maps set on the Mac to remap, for example, D:\ to /Volumes/data/ but this doesn't seem to be enough.The Mac kept erroring out and would stop doing work. I ended up installing 9 Studio on it, and moved the dongle over, just so I could load up the comp there and see what wasn't working. Sure enough, the loaders wouldn't work. Interestingly, when I'd dragged the plate into the comp to see what it wanted the path to look like, the loader would contain the exact PC path E:/blah/blah/blah/... but with slashes instead of backslashes.
This is really making me scratch my head, because the test comp I used at first did not have any loaders in it, but the saver obviously had to point to a file location, and that would have been all backslashes, right? I don't know why the Mac would seemingly be able to find a location with backslashes in a saver, but not in a loader.
Anyway, it would be awesome if someone knew the trick to get this to work, or was able to point out what I'm forgetting, as I have an old Mac Pro I'd love to also get working on my little farm as well if it's possible.
Thanks in advance!
I'm trying to use every computer I have at my disposal to create a mini render farm for work I'm now doing from home. Right now, the machines I have set up are my main workstation, a little dinky PC I have for the family, and two laptops, one a PC and the other a Mac. The Mac however is having a problem with, at least from what I can tell, simply the slash vs. backslash conventions.
Network drives are all set up and everything, every machine is running the Fusion 9 Studio Render Node, I have Studio on the main workstation, the other nodes render fine. I have user Path Maps set on the Mac to remap, for example, D:\ to /Volumes/data/ but this doesn't seem to be enough.The Mac kept erroring out and would stop doing work. I ended up installing 9 Studio on it, and moved the dongle over, just so I could load up the comp there and see what wasn't working. Sure enough, the loaders wouldn't work. Interestingly, when I'd dragged the plate into the comp to see what it wanted the path to look like, the loader would contain the exact PC path E:/blah/blah/blah/... but with slashes instead of backslashes.
This is really making me scratch my head, because the test comp I used at first did not have any loaders in it, but the saver obviously had to point to a file location, and that would have been all backslashes, right? I don't know why the Mac would seemingly be able to find a location with backslashes in a saver, but not in a loader.
Anyway, it would be awesome if someone knew the trick to get this to work, or was able to point out what I'm forgetting, as I have an old Mac Pro I'd love to also get working on my little farm as well if it's possible.
Thanks in advance!