From: Jeff Yana <240vac@(email surpressed)>
Subject: Re: [Q+A] Using After Effects on OSX
   Date: Sat, 03 Dec 2005 14:09:17 -0800
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Just realized that I did not completely answer your last question.

there is no error message, the job just remains in a queued state (and presumable fails after 3 retires, though I have not let it go that long to find out)

Jeff Yana wrote:
I used a similar but slightly different approach ( I had forgotten about this article ;-( ). Anyway, I am using AFP, not NFS, and while the principle is the same, there are important differences between the filesystems that could cause permissions and masks to behave differently.

My approach was to test for the existence of the custom mountpoint I created at root, and then execute "su - renderuser -c 'ls -l /automount/Servers/' " and that would automount the five AFP Mounts stored in my local NIDB. Three lines of code and it works great. The mounts are owned by "renderuser", with the following mask: 0700. If you did not use the su command then the filesystem would be owned by the root user, which obviously would be a problem given the mask noted above.

Yes, the test machine is a fully revved version of Tiger Server (not sure about the submitting machine but that is probably not relevant), so I am baffled.

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How are you mounting your SMB/NFS/AFP shares without logging in first?



    I use NFS with this technique:
http://seriss.com/cgi-bin/rush/newsgroup-threaded.cgi?-view+764+764+770+771+772

    The mount is available at all times.


That's interesting because on my test machine, even with aerender setuid'd root, I cannot get it to render. I must first login.



    What's the (entire) frame log say when it fails?
    ie. is it a missing mount problem, or an AE error message?

    If this is a new machine installed from the CDs, be sure to take
    the update first (ie. bring 10.4.0 -> 10.4.3) and reboot.
    I have a vague recollection that without the update, some 3rd party
    renders wouldn't start.



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