My poser 11 pro is on a Mac 64 GB memory, lots of s storage, RAD5, SSD's  nice machine older OS so it covers 32 bit and 64 bit apps

Poser 11 runs a lot of older python scripts I use daily

Want to by a high end Win computer so I can runs scripts that only run on windows or under P12, Render in superfly via the video card, etc

I want to share my content between the two computers. Over 15 years ago I did this where I had a NAS connected to a Mac and a Windows machine at work. CAD system. Back then the drives were slower, then what you can get today.

Anybody doing this or have any advise or things not to do suggestions Plus any comments on speed of reading poser content on a shared drive either by Ethernet or thunderbolt

TIA

Gary

Gary

"Those who lose themselves in a passion lose less than those who lose their passion"

I have Poser11 installed in its default directory (C:....)( and Poser12 installed on an SSD drive, using the path P:.....
Both are sharing the same runtimes collection (except Poser12's specific one), all on a third path.

Which means: yes: it should work, as long as there is a standard Windows path for the windows system, even if it's a networked one (automatically reconnected at startup)
I can't respond for Mac OS but I'm pretty much convinced that the same rule applies.

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At the college I work at we have a site license for 14 seats of poser 2014.  I installed one copy to the first computer and then had the content installed to a NAS Box.  This took the most time.  After that I just installed the Program to each computer and then copied over the Poser Preference Files to each clone.  Every computer used the same Runtime and for student use the NAS was a Read-Only Drive so they could not change the common data.  Posedr has no problem with doing this.

 

Poser 5, 6, 7, 8, Poser Pro 9 (2012), 10 (2014), 11, 12, 13

Richard60 posted at 8:56 PM Wed, 26 January 2022 - #4433842

At the college I work at we have a site license for 14 seats of poser 2014.  I installed one copy to the first computer and then had the content installed to a NAS Box.  This took the most time.  After that I just installed the Program to each computer and then copied over the Poser Preference Files to each clone.  Every computer used the same Runtime and for student use the NAS was a Read-Only Drive so they could not change the common data.  Posedr has no problem with doing this.

 Did you connect via Ethernet, Thunderbolt 3 or some other method

Gary

"Those who lose themselves in a passion lose less than those who lose their passion"

It is all done via Ethernet.  The computers were located in 6 different rooms.  8 in a common edit pooly, 3 in 3 audio editing rooms (1 per room),  The instructors computer in the TV studio and the last 1 in the Audio control room for the TV studio 

Poser 5, 6, 7, 8, Poser Pro 9 (2012), 10 (2014), 11, 12, 13

Provided the individual PCs are 'licensed' and have correct 'authorisations', keeping a raft of 'external libraries' on other drives, internal, external or NAS, should not be an issue...

I have the 'Poser' core on C: with sundry external libraries on E: , F: and G:. There's a usually-dormant NAS RAID archive, too...