Flamenco/blender breaking UNC paths #100540

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CrunchEnergy · 2022-08-21T19:37:02+02:00

CrunchEnergy commented

2022-08-21 19:37:02 +02:00

Operating system: Windows
Flamenco: 3.0-beta1
Blender: 3.2.2

Summary: Flamenco or blender is breaking UNC paths for shared_storage_path by replacing all backslashes: \ with forward slashess: /

Steps to reproduce: Submit a Flamenco job where shared_storage_path is a windows UNC path (even \localhost\share for example). Worker will report "command exited abnormally with code 1"

In the flamenco-manager.yaml config I can set either \server\share\ or server/share/ and when blender runs the job it's executing it always swaps \ for / and runs '...blender.exe" -b -yserver/share/....'.

This causes it to fail - you can see by running the whole command manually, you get "Error: Cannot read file 'C:\Windows\System32//server\share\job\job.blend': No such file or directory".

Windows is not seeing the path as a UNC path, but perhaps a relative one.

If you take the same whole command, and change / for , and run it manually, it runs fine:
"Read blend: \server\share\job\job.flamenco.blend"
etc

It seems like it could not swap the characters for detected UNC paths (When it starts with \)?

Operating system: Windows Flamenco: 3.0-beta1 Blender: 3.2.2 Summary: Flamenco or blender is breaking UNC paths for shared_storage_path by replacing all backslashes: \ with forward slashess: / Steps to reproduce: Submit a Flamenco job where shared_storage_path is a windows UNC path (even \\localhost\share for example). Worker will report "command exited abnormally with code 1" In the flamenco-manager.yaml config I can set either \\server\share\ or *server/share/ and when blender runs the job it's executing it always swaps \ for / and runs '...blender.exe" -b -y*server/share/....'. This causes it to fail - you can see by running the whole command manually, you get "Error: Cannot read file 'C:\Windows\System32\//server\share\job\job.blend': No such file or directory". Windows is not seeing the path as a UNC path, but perhaps a relative one. If you take the same whole command, and change / for \, and run it manually, it runs fine: "Read blend: \\server\share\job\job.flamenco.blend" etc It seems like it could not swap the characters for detected UNC paths (When it starts with \\)?

CrunchEnergy commented

2022-08-21 19:37:02 +02:00

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Sybren A. Stüvel commented

2022-08-31 09:28:00 +02:00

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Sybren A. Stüvel commented

2022-08-31 09:28:00 +02:00

Changed status from 'Needs Triage' to: 'Confirmed'

Sybren A. Stüvel commented

2022-08-31 09:28:00 +02:00

This is correct, Flamenco doesn't support UNC notation at the moment, you need to mount the share as a drive letter. It is intended that this will be supported at some point, but for that we need more developers willing to work on Windows support.

If you want to know how to do the connection to a drive letter, I show how to set this up in the video at https://flamenco.blender.org/usage/quickstart/

This is correct, Flamenco doesn't support UNC notation at the moment, you need to mount the share as a drive letter. It is intended that this will be supported at some point, but for that we need more developers willing to work on Windows support. If you want to know how to do the connection to a drive letter, I show how to set this up in the video at https://flamenco.blender.org/usage/quickstart/

Erik-Hals referenced this issue

2024-04-17 10:37:03 +02:00

Added ToNative to the blendfile args to resolve workers failing due to windows -> linux pathing #104295

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