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Hi,
I am trying to use Linux version of POV-RAY to render image for me whenever
I want from another computer.
In order to make it work, I need to submit .pov and .ini files to the Linux
server. However, are there another ways of making the server to run the
povray, render the image from the files submitted and return the result to
the machine that I used to submit the files?
How should I approach this and any advice on it?
Mike
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nomail@nomail wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I am trying to use Linux version of POV-RAY to render image for me whenever
> I want from another computer.
>
> In order to make it work, I need to submit .pov and .ini files to the Linux
> server. However, are there another ways of making the server to run the
> povray, render the image from the files submitted and return the result to
> the machine that I used to submit the files?
What you write looks a bit confusing, obviously you can't render a
POV-Ray scene on a computer without transfering the scene file to it in
some way. But i assume this is not what you wanted to know so you
should better clarify your question.
Christoph
--
POV-Ray tutorials, include files, Sim-POV,
HCR-Edit and more: http://www.tu-bs.de/~y0013390/
Last updated 01 May. 2004 _____./\/^>_*_<^\/\.______
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nomail@nomail wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I am trying to use Linux version of POV-RAY to render image for me
> whenever I want from another computer.
>
> In order to make it work, I need to submit .pov and .ini files to the
> Linux server. However, are there another ways of making the server to run
> the povray, render the image from the files submitted and return the
> result to the machine that I used to submit the files?
>
> How should I approach this and any advice on it?
>
> Mike
Are you using a Win98 machine or another Linux machine as the "other"
computer?
Do you have Samba or NFS running? Is the Linux computer always available? Is
your other computer always available.
If the answer is yes to both, and you have the correct mountpoints setup, it
should be easy to do. Copy the files using Samba or NFS, then telnet to the
Linux render server and execute Povray.
Might work?
--
Stefan Viljoen
Software Support Technician
Polar Design Solutions
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>Are you using a Win98 machine or another Linux machine as the "other"
>computer?
I am using a mac. I recently found the CGI; however, I didn't find a way to
submit/transfer files to server and make that Linux box to render and send
the results back. There should be a way to implement such code in pearl or
C++, I think.
>Do you have Samba or NFS running? Is the Linux computer always available? Is
>your other computer always available.
I do not want additional steps to ftp or telnet stuff. I have to transfer
files and get it back by typing couple more steps.
>If the answer is yes to both, and you have the correct mountpoints setup, it
>should be easy to do. Copy the files using Samba or NFS, then telnet to the
>Linux render server and execute Povray.
Maybe...but I need a code or program that I can access to the Linux box and
send the task to that machine.
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nomail@nomail wrote:
>>Are you using a Win98 machine or another Linux machine as the "other"
>>computer?
>
>
> I am using a mac. I recently found the CGI; however, I didn't find a way to
> submit/transfer files to server and make that Linux box to render and send
> the results back. There should be a way to implement such code in pearl or
> C++, I think.
Check http://jcgrid.sourceforge.net
It could solve your problem.
David Bucciarelli
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nomail@nomail wrote:
>>Are you using a Win98 machine or another Linux machine as the "other"
>>computer?
>
> I am using a mac. I recently found the CGI; however, I didn't find a way
> to submit/transfer files to server and make that Linux box to render and
> send the results back. There should be a way to implement such code in
> pearl or C++, I think.
Dunno - think it might be easier just to use system tools that usually exist
/ are easily obtainable for Linux, like Samba and NFS.
>>Do you have Samba or NFS running? Is the Linux computer always available?
>>Is your other computer always available.
>
> I do not want additional steps to ftp or telnet stuff. I have to transfer
> files and get it back by typing couple more steps.
Well... how are the files going to get onto the Linux machine if they are
not Samba'ed / NFS'ed or ftp'ed over? It might be as simple as
1. Opening the network drive folder on the Mac desktop.
2. Copying the files.
3. Open a terminal (or whatever) ont he mac and going "telnet
linux-machine-ip"
4. Password.
5. Render.
6. Open the network drive folder on the Mac desktop.
7. Copy result to local file on the Mac.
>>If the answer is yes to both, and you have the correct mountpoints setup,
>>it should be easy to do. Copy the files using Samba or NFS, then telnet to
>>the Linux render server and execute Povray.
>
> Maybe...but I need a code or program that I can access to the Linux box
> and send the task to that machine.
You mean a script?
--
Stefan Viljoen
Software Support Technician
Polar Design Solutions
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In article <web.40bf32958389caca186d05510@news.povray.org>,
"" <nomail@nomail> wrote:
> >Are you using a Win98 machine or another Linux machine as the "other"
> >computer?
>
> I am using a mac. I recently found the CGI; however, I didn't find a way to
> submit/transfer files to server and make that Linux box to render and send
> the results back. There should be a way to implement such code in pearl or
> C++, I think.
Running Mac OS X? That information would be useful in answering your
question...
It is pretty easy to write a script that transfers a scene file to a
remote machine using scp, runs POV-Ray remotely via ssh, and then
retrieves the generated image. You could also create a makefile to
handle multiple files, transmitting only those that were modified. You
could also do something similar with rsync, something that I plan on
experimenting with.
--
Christopher James Huff <cja### [at] earthlink net>
http://home.earthlink.net/~cjameshuff/
POV-Ray TAG: <chr### [at] tagpovrayorg>
http://tag.povray.org/
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nomail@nomail wrote:
> How should I approach this and any advice on it?
>
I'm doing it like this:
http://www.cip.physik.uni-muenchen.de/~wwieser/ani/rendview/
In case you are using, feedback is welcome.
Wolfgang
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for more security:
- use ssh instead of telnet (putty for windows users)
- use sftp/scp instead of ftp (winscp for windows users, or maybe
webdrive to map an remote (s)ftp site to a drive letter)
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Darren New <dne### [at] sanrrcom> wrote:
> I've built such servers in the past and it's a really convenient way of
> doing things, especially if multiple people are using the server. If you
> poll the mailbox, the server automatically queues up requests in the
> mail queues, and people get notified when it's done automatically, and
> you can turn off the server for a few minutes to fix things without
> anyone even noticing.
Hmm..I guess it is surely another way of doing it. I am not sure what you
mean by turning off the server for a few minutes to fix things. Why do you
need to turn it off? Do you mean the errors by using the mail server or
just in general?
Also, will this method work with multiple machines? because there are some
softwares that do all the task splitting things among the stations in the
cluster. So if I mail the two files, would the cluster notice it and assign
the rendering task in the cluster managing software? without mixing up the
queue (with other tasks)?
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