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Glen Loyd
Posted Monday, November 20, 2006 2:22 PM


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This subject is really Mark Kauffman's area of expertise, but I'll at least get the thread started.  I've had a lot of questions from various people (PB and non PB) regarding render farm nodes (servers) and what OS to use.  I think it's the description of "server" that throws people off.  Really, the render node workstation only needs to have Windows XP (Pro) installed since it's only taking on one task at a time from the Render Manager.  The only workstation that needs Server is whatever the frames are being rendered to since it requires more than ten outside accesses.  Hopefully that clears up the OS issue a little bit.

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David Hinnant
Posted Thursday, November 30, 2006 12:44 PM


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Loyd,

Do you guys use Active Directory?  I don't really know what it is, but we use it and our IT crowd asked if anyone had a render farm on an Active Directory network.  We are trying to get them to setup our farm the right way and they are afraid of anything they have never seen before.

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Tom
Posted Friday, December 01, 2006 8:39 PM


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Yes, we use Active Directory extensively here for our corporate network. A render farm benefits from it as it makes user authorization and authentication seamless with the rest of the network, but it doesn't provide and advantages for the actual rendering.

THOMAS SHANNON
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