Quote - > Quote - I suggest to go the Linux route, it provides more flexibility, it costs less and it's in general more reliable. Just MHO.

Then I definitely will need someone to hold my hand in the dark ~wink~ point well noted

There is a bit of madness with EC2 and their authorization system, which doesn'tuse the usual login/password system. They issue a digital certificate (.PEM) that you have to store on disk and then use to login. You will need an SSH client for Windows, I'm sure that there are free ones available (BTW, Microsoft, about time to include SSH in the OS, everybody else has it).

Once you have ssh you call it and type something like this:

ssh -i [PATH TO YOUR PEM FILE]  root@[IP ADDRESS]

That will log you into your new machine. Just make sure that everything is running in the right place and make a dir /opt/luxrender where you will be copying the luxconsole for Linux executable. Of course you will need to have downloaded the Linux version of Luxrender before you start the process. You keep that in your Windows machine.

Log out from the Ubuntu box and go back to your SSH shell.

Issue the command:

scp -i  -i [PATH TO YOUR PEM FILE] [PATH TO THE LINUX VERSION OF LUX]/luxconsole root@[IP ADDRESS]:/opt/luxrender

Please note the ":" after the ip address. This will copy the luxconsole program to your new server.

Now log back into the server, cd to the /opt/luxrender directory and run the luxconsole server

Start the render from Reality and, when LuxRender comes up, add the address of your new server. You should be able to see the server/render node reply in your SSH window. Happiness ensues.

Hope this helps.

 

 

Paolo

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