In case, if you don't use shared file system and if your FILESYSTEM_DOMAIN setting in your local condor_config.local is same for all machine and in your condor job's submit description file the line for file transfer is set like below "should_transfer_files = IF_NEEDED" condor will not transfer file. So, To enable the file transfer mechanism, two commands are placed in the job's submit description file: should_transfer_files and when_to_transfer_output. An example is: should_transfer_files = YES when_to_transfer_output = ON_EXIT ref) ==== http://www.cs.wisc.edu/condor/manual/v6.6.11/2_5Submitting_Job.html#sec:file-transfer We need to do "file transfering" for the computing node which were not nfs mounted. However, we didn't need to do that on the nfs mounted storage disks.