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Step 2:

Make sure each computer has a volume dedicated to media

Give each computer a second volume, such as a FireWire drive, that is used for media.
Each computer will use this volume for all source and destination files associated with
Shake scripts, including the Shake scripts themselves.

Note:

Each media volume should have a different name.

Step 3:

Turn off the UNC (Universal Naming Convention) setting for Shake

In order to make sharing and volume mounting work smoothly in this setup, you
need to turn the Shake UNC setting off on each computer. The UNC setting uses the
entire file pathname, with the network address, in a convention that starts with

//ComputerName/DriveName/path.

You don’t want Shake to use this filenaming

convention because it conflicts with the file sharing and volume mounting used in
this setup.

In the three steps below, you make this change in a Shake

startup

.h file. As described

in the Shake documentation, the

startup

.h files, located in the

startup

directory, are

used to customize Shake settings (similar to setting preferences).

To turn off the UNC setting, do the following on

each

of the computers:

Double-click the Terminal icon in /Utilities/Applications to open a Terminal window.

Enter these two command lines in the Terminal window, pressing Return after each
command line:

mkdir -p ~/nreal/include/startup/

echo 'script.uncFileNames = 0;' > ~/nreal/include/startup/UNC_off.h

Step 4:

Turn Personal File Sharing on

On each computer, open System Preferences, click Sharing, and turn on Personal File
Sharing. This allows the computers to share the media volumes.

Step 5:

Mount all of the media storage volumes

On each computer, log in as the administrator. (The first user account you create when
you set up Mac OS X is an administrator account.) Then, on each computer in the
group, use the Connect to Server command in the Finder

’

s Go menu to mount each

media volume.

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