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Posted: **Fri Dec 16, 2022 9:35 am**

Hi,

I was looking for some examples to combine Windows and Linux nodes with a storage location on a network share.
In Windows this location is mapped as a drive letter, but in Linux - of course - it is just a /mnt/share location.
Most of our renders are coming from Windows hosts, so the drive letter naming is fine and the render nodes can store their finished renders on that share.
However, our Linux hosts fail because they can't find the drive letter to get or store the files to safe the finished renders.
I was thinking maybe there is an example available to rename the share location in a configuration file, or should I set up two separate render servers for each distro?

Posted: **Fri Dec 16, 2022 12:45 pm**

I've got it handled after looking at the error logs.
It was looking for a folder Z: in /var/tmp/afanasy/
So, if I mount the share at /var/tmp/afanasy/Z:, it works

I also tried the below in my config.json on all renders, but that didn't seem to work for our setup.

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.....
"OS_linux":{

        "pathsmap":[
                ["/mnt/triglav/",       "Z:/"]
        ]
}
"OS_windows":{

        "pathsmap":[
                ["Z:/",	"/mnt/triglav"]
        ]
}
.....

Posted: **Mon Dec 26, 2022 9:11 am**

Hello!

Sorry for the delay. We had a deadline and noticed your posts just now.

Paths map setup has a "client <-> server" pairs:
https://cgru.readthedocs.io/en/latest/a ... #paths-map
On job submisson it goes in "client -> server" direction, on task start it goes in "client <- server" direction.
So server stores some "server" paths, and each client can transfer it back to "client".

If you have:

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"OS_windows":{"pathsmap":[["Z:/","/mnt/triglav"]]}

you do not need:

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"OS_linux":{"pathsmap":[["/mnt/triglav/","Z:/"]]}

Also you should test your json file for syntax errors.
If some file exactly contains that pasted piece - there is no comma between members - it is an error, you have no paths map configured.

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