Rendering Farm
29-Jan-95 15:07:33
Sb: #149864-Rendering Farm
Fm: Carlton Newton 72066,642
To: JEFF ZEHNER 74064,3365
Greetings Jeff-
I'm about to embark on a similar school network odyessy ( I teach at Virginia
Commonwealth University's Sculpture Department). I don't have any answers for
you (unfortunately), but I certainly interested in the answers you will recieve
on the forum.
I finally got R4 installed on 6 486's last week. My plan is those 6 plus a
90mhz Pentium, connected via ethernet and running Windows for Workgroups 3.11
in "some sort of DOS" mode. I know its possible because I read about it here.
(g) I'm going to shoot for WFW because its what I have installed, and I've
already got WIN NT 3.5 system running as a server and print spooler on the net.
I've been skimming the network responses on the forum for a couple of months
and I've seen some positive responses from folks.
Message posted by Brian Rudolf in December:
>Yyou can use the NT machine as a SERVER( ie, a place to keep files, and >will
never run on the machine that has NT, it is not compatable.
>the WFW network drivers from DOS, setting them up as a peer to peer >network,
all connecting to a comon directory on the NT server. Set up >you network paths
to point to that directory, and you should be set. >You can also set your
images to render to the NT server hard disk or >keep them local on the slave
machines hard disk.
Good Luck,
Carlton