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SquidNet Linux Installation Guide

This document provides instructions for installing the SquidNet Network Render Manager software on Linux. It describes requirements like ensuring certain ports are open in the firewall. It also explains dependencies that must be installed like Ethtool. The installation process involves extracting the tarball, making the installer executable, and running it with sudo. Commands are provided to start, stop, and restart the SquidNet daemon. Uninstalling removes files from the installation directory.

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SquidNet Linux Installation Guide

This document provides instructions for installing the SquidNet Network Render Manager software on Linux. It describes requirements like ensuring certain ports are open in the firewall. It also explains dependencies that must be installed like Ethtool. The installation process involves extracting the tarball, making the installer executable, and running it with sudo. Commands are provided to start, stop, and restart the SquidNet daemon. Uninstalling removes files from the installation directory.

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SquidNet

Network Render Manager

LINUX Installation Guide

Version 1.2
September 13, 2012

This document is published by SquidNet Software, Inc. 2009, SquidNet Software, Inc. All rights reserved.
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SquidNet Network Render Manager LINUX Installation Guide

Table of Contents
ABOUT THIS DOCUMENT: ..................................................................................................................... 2 1 INSTRUCTIONS ................................................................................................................................ 1 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 1.6 1.7 REQUIREMENTS ................................................................................................................................ 1 FIREWALL ......................................................................................................................................... 1 HOSTNAME LOOKUP .......................................................................................................................... 1 SMC CONSOLE ................................................................................................................................. 2 SYSTEM DEPENDENCIES.................................................................................................................... 2 INSTALL ............................................................................................................................................ 2 UNINSTALL ....................................................................................................................................... 2

This document is published by SquidNet Software, Inc. 2009, SquidNet Software, Inc. All rights reserved.
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SquidNet Network Render Manager LINUX Installation Guide

About this document:


This manual will describe the SquidNet installation on a Linux Operating System. Its assumed that the reader is familiar with basic operating system, administrative and networking terms. For any suggestions or comments, feel free to contact us; contact information can be found in the Help menu in the SMC console and on our website at http://www.squidnetsoftware.com.

This document is published by SquidNet Software, Inc. 2009, SquidNet Software, Inc. All rights reserved.
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SquidNet Network Render Manager LINUX Installation Guide

1 Instructions
1.1 Requirements
For Linux, SquidNet supports a majority of the more popular 32/64 bit distributions. Please make sure that your system is up to date with the latest application packages and security updates before starting this procedure.

1.2 Firewall

*** IMPORTANT ***


The squidnetd daemon uses the following network ports: TCP 17394 UDP 17395 UDP 17396

Please make sure you open these ports up in your firewall (" Other Ports") and also make sure that the local interface (eth*) is marked as trusted in the Trusted Interfaces page. Not doing so will cause tipnode detection issues.

1.3 Hostname lookup

*** IMPORTANT ***


Please make sure that your Linux system has the proper hostname name setup so that when a hostname lookup is made the correct network IP address is returned. For Debian based distributions: Add you hostname to /etc/hostname Execute /etc/init.d/hostname.sh start (or reboot) For RedHat based distributions: Edit /etc/sysconfig/network Execute /etc/rc.d/rc.sysinit (or reboot). Alternativily, but not recommended, you can edit your /etc/hosts file to include the hostname and IP address. If the hostname of your node is not present in /etc/hosts, SquidNet will use the IP address assigned to network interface eth0.

Tipnode name setup in /etc/hosts file.

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SquidNet Network Render Manager LINUX Installation Guide

1.4 SMC Console


Because the SMC console only runs on WINDOWS, youll need to install the WINDOWS version of SquidNet on a WINDOWS host. Theres no equivalent GUI that runs on Linux .

1.5 System Dependencies


SquidNet has a few operating system packages that must installed. Depending on your distribution, do the following: For RedHat (Fedora, etc...) distributions, do the following: > sudo yum install ethtool For Debien (Ubuntu, etc...) distributions, do the following: > sudo apt-get install ethtool if using 64-Bit Linux, do: > sudo apt-get install ethtool ia32-libs

1.6 Install
The SquidNet installation is done with a simple tarball. You must be logged into a root account to execute the following procedures: 64-Bit Distribution Note: When installing SquidNet on a 64-bit Linux Operating System, you must install the 32-bit libraries beforehand. For example, on debian-based systems you can install the 32-bit libraries using the following command: >> sudo apt-get install ethtool ia32-libs Make sure you have the latest version of the Linux SquidNet installer available. Always check the website for the latest updates. Open up a terminal and make sure you have "sudo" root access. Execute the following commands: >> "cd" to folder where the SquidNet installer resides. >> tar xvzf squidnet-linux-2.66P31.tar.gz >> chmod +x ./squidnet-linux-2.66P31.bin >> sudo ./squidnet-linux-2.66P31.bin You may start, stop or restart the SquidNet daemon using the following commands (as root): o o o sudo /etc/init.d/squidnet start sudo /etc/init.d/squidnet stop sudo /etc/init.d/squidnet restart

1.7 Uninstall
To uninstall SquidNet, do the following:

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SquidNet Network Render Manager LINUX Installation Guide cd to SquidNet installation directory (/usr/squidnet) and execute uninstall script (squidnetuninstall.sh).

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