Warning: line 1: Reference file not found

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I have a linux render farm. And I use a windows client to submit jobs.
I get some problems:

Warning: line 1: Reference file not found. : P:/Tpang/Main//Reference/Set/Ep10/Tpang_Ep10_S_Agit_inside_house.mb
Warning: line 1: Reference file not found. : P:/Tpang/Main//Reference/Cha/Ep00/Tpang_Ep00_Ref_C_TiTi_01.mb
Warning: line 1: Reference file not found. : P:/Tpang/Main//Reference/Cha/Ep00/Tpang_Ep00_Ref_C_TokTok_01.mb
Warning: line 1: Reference file not found. : P:/Tpang/Main//Reference/Cha/Ep00/Select_data/TITI_01.mb
Warning: line 1: Reference file not found. : P:/Tpang/Main//Reference/Cha/Ep00/Select_data/TOKTOK_01.mb
Warning: line 1: Reference file not found. : P:/Tpang/Main//Reference/Prop/Ep10/Tpang_Ep10_P_MilkPack_01.mb
Warning: line 1: Reference file not found. : P:/Tpang/Main//Reference/Prop/Ep10/Tpang_Ep10_P_Frame_01.mb
Warning: line 1: Reference file not found. : P:/Tpang/Main//Reference/Prop/Ep06/Tpang_Ep06_P_Hammer_01.mb


drive P is a network mapped drive.

has anyone seen the problem?

Thank you!

[jburk]

Drive P: may be a mapped network drive, but drive mappings are a Windows construct, and the linux workers know nothing about them.

Qube has path translation, but it can only translate the paths present at the command-line.  It can't translate the reference paths in the maya scene file.

You can either experiment with the Maya 'dirmap' command and express the path translation inside maya, or you can keep reading a get a couple of hints on how to take a sys-admin approach to side-stepping this problem.

You need to express the paths to the references inside Maya in a format that works on both the Windows and linux hosts so that no path translation is necessary.

If you use UNC paths on the Windows side, you're most of the way to getting this working.  Then you only need to create a symlink on the linux side, combined with some NFS mount, to have the UNC path look like a valid NFS path on the linux side.

Say the UNC path that P: drive currently maps to looks like:

\\server1\shareName

on the linux side, you would create the mount point

mkdir -p /mnt/server1

and NFS-mount the same share something like this (refer to the documentation specific to your OS for the exact details):

mount.nfs server1:/shareName  /mnt/server1/shareName

and in the root of the linux drive, create a symlink:

ln -s /mnt/server1 /server1

Then test the symlink using the UNC-style path (but with the slashes pointing the unix-correct way):

ls //server1/shareName

This should list the contents of the network share.

Re-save your  Maya scene with UNC paths for the reference files, then submit another render job.  The paths should then resolve correctly.

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Thank you!
It's very helpful.