How to share your Thinkbox Deadline Repository with Samba

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If you want to use direct connect to connect your Deadline Workers to the Repository, or if you want to make it easy to add scripts and plug-ins to Deadline, you need a file share. But how to set one up? The simple free solution is Samba. Here is how to get it set up on your Deadline server. What is Samba? Put simply, Samba is a file server for Linux.
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Deadline Portal on Linux Setup

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The purpose of the Deadline Portal is to provide a (relatively) easy way to expand a physical Deadline render farm into the cloud. This is often referred to as a hybrid render farm. Portal handles transferring of assets and managing of worker fleets. Where you should use it Need to burst quickly in the cloud. Small projects with < 500GB of assets (depending on internet connection). Don’t have an existing way of syncing assets to the cloud.
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Blender Deadline Submitter Installation

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This guide focuses on Blender 3.6.1, however any version from 2.80 onwards should work. Getting the Deadline Add-on There are 2 ways to get the add-on

  1. Download from Monitor Open the Deadline Monitor and in the top menu bar click Tools -> Download Integrated Submission Scripts… Select Blender check box, then in the ‘Download To’ field enter the path to where you want to download the submitters. Then Click ‘OK’
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Thinkbox Deadline server Linux installation

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Getting started Which Linux Distro? This example uses Ubuntu 20.04 LTS, however any major distro should work. [!Note] Newer versions of Linux, like Ubuntu 22.04 no longer ship with libcrypto.so.1.1. This is a requirement for MongoDB 4.4, the database used by the Deadline Repository. If you use a newer Linux you’ll need to install the old libcrypto libraries. How much CPU & RAM? For 20-30 render nodes the server needs about 2 CPU cores and 4GB of ram
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