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When setting up a renderfarm, one of the most important things you need to be able to do is get instant access to each machine on your farm with as little physical interaction with that machine as possible. You want each machine to be like an appliance. You walk up to it, press a button and it starts rendering.
One of the main hurdles to that is the initial startup of each machine. You could just not enter in any name or password but then Windows security doesn’t allow you to use Remote Desktop to remotely administer it. And when you create an account and enter in a name and password Windows requires you to enter that in at bootup time. Hard to do when your computer doesn’t even have a keyboard!
SO! This is how you get around that. Its not great for security obviously but most render nodes don’t need to see the internet so. . . its good for this.
In this video I walk you through how to enter tell Windows what account to use at startup, how to make it automatically enter in a password and boot into Windows without you having to do anything but turn the machine on.
I’m rendering a big project right now so I took advantage of the fact that I had to set up a new machine on my farm and made this little video. Not sure how appealing it will be to people but its something that really stumped me for a little while.
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