Bok running a FAD Server

[PCZ]

I will clarify a few points.

The server is just a standard install of FAD nothing special about it.

Only the Server needs to run Samba.
You need to make this Share writeable for your windows nodes if you run any !

All the Files that Fadspy needs to read are on the Server.
The nodes write everything to the Servers FAD directory

You can run mixed windows and nix clients if you copy over a couple of files to the FAD directory on the server from a windows install.
think.exe and salfilbc.dll

Only use FadSpy version 0.45 and dont select use pcname files.

If your nodes are SMP then dont forget to set maximum CPU's in fadsetup on the server.

The nodes need to mount with nolock

mount -t nfs -o nolock xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx:/FAD /FAD
replace FAD with whatever directory name you decide to use.

to run think
./think /n 0 &

to run a second instance on the same node
./think /n 1 &

On windows run think.exe
Dont forget .exe as linux think doesn't work in windows !

[Bok]

Ok,

one question, you said to run samba on the server. But then you are doing nfs mounts ???

The reason I mentioned installing samba, is that my minimal gentoo installs don't have smbclient installed.

:cheers:

Bok

[PCZ]

Your gentoo nodes are happy doing nfs yes ?

The monitoring app FadSpy only runs on windows so in order to get info from your server it needs a Samba share.

If your nodes are connecting to the server to run think then they dont need to be monitored individually, so no Samba required.

Also make sure the clocks are in sync.
If the time is out on any of the nodes it upsets the monitoring.
If they slip more than a few minutes they show up as stalled when they are in fact running.