How to share your Thinkbox Deadline Repository with Samba

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.

Deadline Portal on Linux Setup

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.