2008

7 Click OK to accept the changes.

NOTE If you plan to use more than 10 rendering servers, both the output

path and location of all scene maps should be on a system running Windows

XP or Windows 2000 Server, as both Windows XP Professional and Windows

2000 Professional have a limit of 10 simultaneous connections.

Mounting a Directory

You can mount a directory to a drive letter as an alternative to using

UNC

names

on page 7961 . In mixed UNIX/XP/2000 networks, for example, you

might need to mount the output directory.

For network rendering, you mount (or map) the directory on all machines in

the network. This gives all rendering servers access to the shared directory.

Before beginning this setup, choose a common drive letter for all servers to

mount. If you have other drives mounted, you might need to switch

assignments to free the drive letter for this mount.

If a Map or Target directory is on a rendering server, mount the directory on

this machine like all the others, even if the directory is on the local disk.

When using a mounted directory, be sure that the directory to be mounted

is correctly shared. When assigning bitmaps, always use the path with the

common drive letter.

The steps below are general. See your Windows XP or 2000 documentation

for more details.

NOTE During the writing of these procedures, Windows XP was set to display a

Classic Windows interface.