Wanted a little help with remote buffers

[Langly]

I have following lines in .ini:

[buffers]
buffer-file-basename=\\COMPU1\C\Program Files\distributed.net\buff-in
output-file-basename=\\COMPU1\C\Program Files\distributed.net\buff-out

Things work smoothly just like they should, the remote machines fetch their work from COMPU1. However, when COMPU1 is down for some reason, the other machines discard their randomly generated blocks and that's not something I want to happen. Is there any way besides using Pproxy to assign secondary buffers on the local machine or the others, which would be used when primary buffer machine is down?

Thanks in advance!

 

[Joe O]

Actually "remote buffers" is what you want. What you have is your main buffers remote.

[buffers]
allow-update-from-altbuffer=yes
checkpoint-filename=chkpoint.rc5
alternate-buffer-directory="\\COMPU1\C\Program Files\distributed.net"

Oh and I recommend that you have a local checkpoint file. It's not necessary, but it prevents work from being lost.

 

[Langly]

Oh, ok. Now it works perfectly. Thanks for the help