Hi all,
I've got a bunch of network computers that I can use for rendering. I can't do a full install of Houdini on each machine. But I did find advice explaining to copy the Houdini ‘bin’ folder onto a network drive and point each computer to it in the submission script.

This works in a limited fashion. Mantra does start up, but it gets stuck as soon as it tries to compile any shaders inside the ifd. It can't find any of the header files. (.h)

I can't even begin to think of where to try exploring. Does anyone know how I should do this?

Sim.

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Things I can think of is:
-firstly putting more than just the bin folder onto network drive.
Then how do I point to libraries; in IFD, in Win registry, in Mantra command options?
-Otherwise, do I pre-compile everything and how?
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What OS are you trying to do this on? We use LX here and have setup a boot script that we can use to install Houdini on our farm nodes. This makes it very easy to update, or you can easily setup a server install and link a folder on each node. Quite a few ways to skin this cat.

Sandy

Sorry - just saw you mentioned win registry. We long ago abandoned using Windows on render nodes, it is so much easier to work with LX on nodes, and with the use of Variables I am sure it is not difficult to setup a Houdini cross OS render farm. I did it for Mental Ray and Arnold before - Houdini should be a breeze.