Source Media File Sharing

[kitten]

The documentation says that the Qubeproxyuser needs access to have read write access to all media.  We are primarily a Macintosh house.    Does this mean that all users will have to share all folders where media is present?   

That will be a lot of folders to share.  Does each worker have to have all the shares mounted? 

Can the worker just access the files in the background?

[eric]

By this, we're referring to the directory(ies) the Workers access in order to read and write files. Typically, the Workers will all reference the same directory on a central file server so that they can write their output to the same place.
Those directories need to be readable and writable by the qubeproxy user (if you're running the Worker in proxy mode). If you're running in user mode, you just need to make sure your users can read and write to the directories they plan to access for their jobs. If the directories on the Worker are the same as those on the host they submit the job from, it shouldn't be a problem.

[Raymond]

What is commonly done is users buy a file server, say OSX server from apple, to solve this type of problem.  However if your not running a server anywhere then you are correct that you have to do the following:

1.  Turn on file sharing under system preferences.
2.  Mount each drive that you need access to under Network, Go, finder menu.

Leopard in a few days may offer more ways, but file sharing is generally consider a security risk and thus not made extremely easy or optimized - Unless you use a file server.