Content Libraries, VPNs and Samba shares

Testing6790

Anyone have any experience with sourcing your content libraries across a network? What about a Samba share over VPN for accessing your content on the road? Because that's exactly what I am trying to do!

I'm on the road for work and obviously cannot simply download my content, for practical reasons. Being a networky kind of guy, I threw together a VPN to my home network ( "threw together" meaning spent hours reading and trying different things) and now I have access to my drives from over 1000 miles away! Way cool.

However, I have to wait until 6 before I try it. In the meantime, I wanted to see if there were other adventurous folk out there who had done the same thing? Did it work for you? How brutal was it on your network? I'm not entirely sure how DS uses content and will very interested to see how long my load times are xD

Totte

I tried it and gave up, just look at the size of a G2M. To see export with maps as an obj and look at the file size. Unless you're on a 100MBit line, you will probably turn into dust before the figure has loaded. And I haven't even started to talk about CMS problems....

But, I do use the network when in the cottage. I setup scenes on my laptop (using no .daz files what so ever, to keep the saved .duf files portable), then I send them over to my machine at home, thats only a few megabytes. And run DS using VNC to open the files and render.

Testing6790

Yeah, I'm expecting it to be hilariously slow. I'm still going to try it, even if it ends up just being a "for science" venture. My home network has 10 Mbps up, which will undoubtedly be the bottleneck... I tested a little last night and downloaded about a gig in ~10 minutes. So we'll see.

Edit: did the math, it's ~13 min per GB.

WendyLuvsCatz

Yikes how much content do you have that you cannot copy it to a small external drive?

XtraDimensional

Use remote desktop? I use Chrome remote desktop. Free, and I can access my home machine from anywhere where I have internet. I can even work on art from my Nexus.

Testing6790

The results are in and are hilariously bad! I tried to load a figure and it just hung until I decided to go to bed! Womp womp womp.

Hanako Hime said:

Use remote desktop? I use Chrome remote desktop. Free, and I can access my home machine from anywhere where I have internet. I can even work on art from my Nexus.

Does that work? I try using Teamviewer and the delay is bad enough that I cannot control camera positioning because it lags and loses all minute control. I had success using Ericom Blaze, but THAT has a problem where it doesn't support open gl 1.3 so I cannot render or open DS through it, so I have to use Team Viewer to open and render and Ericom Blaze to do all my posing, etc.

I'll try chrome remote desktop tonight I guess.

XtraDimensional

Some of the mouse things don't translate over so well, so I advise learning the camera hotkeys and inputting dial values by numbers rather than dialing, but other than that, it works great.

Testing6790

Hanako Hime said:

camera hotkeys

http://media.giphy.com/media/5aLrlDiJPMPFS/giphy.gif

I've been using DS for years now and I didn't even know those were a thing.

XtraDimensional

Window -> Workspace -> Customize, then choose Cameras. You can edit your hotkeys, should you like.

You're welcome. ^_~

Testing6790

wasd here I come!

Testing6790

Update: HUGE SUCCESS!

I was able to successfully load both G2F and G2M , some hair and a hat into a scene over my VPN last night! Took about 10 minutes for each figure, but once they were loaded everything was snappy.

Word of note: Saving the scene locally will break it on the next load because the dependencies don't update to be the samba share. That means each load of the scene will take the same amount of time. I wouldn't load the big scenes, but it worked!