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    Hi team!

    In our office we have setup a Distributed Rendering system with two mini render farms to do the jobs. They have static IP, they are added in the servers list and everything works great.
    To increase horse power we thought to add Vray nodes in the office workstations, and add them to the renderfarm during nights when people don't work.
    We installed the nodes on these machines. My question is, is there a way to find out which machine is available on the network so I can add it to the rendering jobs.
    Unlike in Vray for Rhino, I cannot click on Find Servers, in order to see them an add them. Also, I cant add them manually by typing the IP, as the workstations have dynamic IP and I would have to do that day by day for each computer. (ps. I am not using Backburner. Just vray and 3dsmax)

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    Other issue, when I try to add one workstation manually and start the render, it accepts the job, but the machine is not responding. Tired with different ones, always not responding... What can it be???
    Thank you all.

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    Last edited by sheehan_partners_nm; 31-03-2017, 09:16 AM.

  • #2
    for one part of your question on the slaves with the dynamic IP's why do you just use the names of the computers? I never use IP's for DR or Backburner as like you pointed out that IP's change on dynamic network.
    Cheers,
    -dave
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    • #3
      yes, I will do that. If I only can get it to work first.... they keep not responding

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      • #4
        Originally posted by sheehan_partners_nm View Post
        yes, I will do that. If I only can get it to work first.... they keep not responding
        Be sure that you have the same versions and service packs in all the slaves you want to use as well as all the same plugins and their versions. I would also check your firewall settings as well as that may interfere with DR.
        Cheers,
        -dave
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