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In article <1992Nov4.145301.6143@stone.com> andrew@stone.com writes:
>In article <1992Nov4.065228.13194@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu>  
>phayes@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu (Patrick W Hayes) writes:
>> 
>> How does the multiple host rendering work in 3.0? All I ever get in
>> the render panel is "localhost." Is there a "render-host manager" or  
>something?
>> Do I make some netinfo entry? I couldn't find the docs on this, a  
>pointer
>> to the right manual is all I should need, but then, digital lib. came up
>> with nothing.
>> 
>> Patrick Hayes
>> pwhayes+@osu.edu
>> 
>What a hassle, eh? Oh the hidden magic. Lots of people are calling up and  
>saying "Reality doesn't render", and we are thinking, "hmm, render's here  
>fine".
>
>Here's how to publish other rendering hosts: [There may be a better way,  
>if so, speak up! This was all gleaned by trial and error]:
>


There's an app in /NextDeveloper/Demos call RenderManager.app. If you run
it as root, it is supposed to go into NetInfo and publish your host as
a public render host.
\
However, I never got it to work quite right (like this is a big suprise,
does anything on 3.0 work quite right?) and had to go in and do by hand
what Andrew said...

- db

>1] Launch NetInfoManager
>2] Open your root domain
>3] IF there is not a top level directory named "locations", add it
>4] IF "locations" does not have a subdirectory named "renderers", create  
>it. It has two properties: name, which is "renderers", and "_writers",  
>which should be "*" if you want everyone to access these hosts.
>5] Now, add as subdirectories, new entries to "renderers", one for each  
>host on your network which can provide public rendering. For, example, our  
>directory has, "dog", "scud", "buddha", etc. These final directories have  
>two properties as well, the ubiquitous name, which is the host's name; and  
>a "note" field, which may contain a note which appears on the Render  
>Panel, such as "Gone Renderin", or "A bad day rendering is better..."
>
>In summary, this will be the structure of the new NetInfo directories:
>
>locations -> renderers -> hostA
>			  hostB	
>			  ...
>			  hostN
>
>Any more info on this stuff, please email me or post...
>
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