3ds and network paths

[rb50]

Anybody know how to prevent 3ds from translating a mapped drive to a fully qualified path

(D:\matlibs\bitmap_name) ---> (\\Render-1\d\matlibs\bitmap_name)

Anybody know how to prevent this translation???

I’ve got a small render farm with mentalray bucket rendering and distributed maps. The maps are on a large file server and each slave has its own directory to pull the files from with mapped drives to the file server. I'm trying not to have to have a separate copy of all my maps on each slave ( It is a night mare to maintain ). It will work fine if I can prevent 3ds from translating the mapped drive path to the NetBIOS path???

I prefer not to setup a file replication system if I can avoid it. Every time a mapped is changed it has to be replicated across the network. My map collection is 200 gigs. It's a nightmare. Or any other suggestions???

Hope I have explained this correctly - lol

Thnx in advance

Kevin

[Brian Cassil]

Go to customize/preferences/files tab and uncheck 'Convert file paths to UNC' in the File Handling section.

 

I had a nightmare of a time with this as well since the company I work for moves data from one server to another to kill time I think.

[rb50]

Thank you very much Brian

 

 

Whew, I was horified at the thought of keeping track of all the files.

 

 

 

Kevin

[rb50]

That was so simple I feel like an idiot.

 

 

I come from the unix world and was thinking more like an alias file.

 

anyway thnx again

 

kevin

[Brian Cassil]

No problem. Why that isn't set as a default I will never know.