Manuel Kasten schrieb:
> Chambers schrieb:
>> I'd like to set up my home computer such that, by using minimal 
>> software* on another system, I can send my home computer an SDL file, 
>> have it render, and retrieve the resulting image.
>>
>> I'm running Windows XP Pro at home.
>>
>> Does anyone have a suggestion for how to do this?
> 
> Depending on how much you want to install on your home computer for this 
> and how much programming you or a friend can do, you could install a 
> webserver and write a small web application (PHP, Perl, you name it). If 
> you want to get really ambitious it could easily start more than one 
> render, display status information and partly rendered images as well as 
> allow the passing of commandline-options to povray. Be sure to protect 
> this somehow though, it would be a rather big security hole if you don't.

P.S.

If you have access to a terminal shell with ssh, the cygwin project 
includes a ssh server for windows. That would enable you to use sftp to 
transfer files and a ssh shell to start your renders. Be sure to look 
into screen as well, comes very handy in these cases.


Links:

http://www.en.wampserver.com/
http://www.cygwin.com/
http://www.gnu.org/software/screen/ (just for reference, installable 
from cygwin)

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