Trying to slave my studio workstation from home via Hamachi.

[Karol.Osinski]

As in the title. I want to use DR with my studio workstation, I installed Hamachi on both and connected to them together. After whole day of tries and fixes I managed to ping them without any issues - Hamachi shows no errors whatsoever. Before I fully solved Hamachi errors V-Ray was giving me the following message:
// Warning: V-Ray : Could not connect to host ************: An attempt was made to access a socket in a way forbidden by its access permissions. //
// Warning: V-Ray : Could not use any of the selected (1) hosts for distributed rendering! //

Then I fixed it by playing aroun with Windows Firewall etc. so the error changed to something like:
//The machine is refusing the access <<<<<<<- or something like this.
// Warning: V-Ray : Could not use any of the selected (1) hosts for distributed rendering! //

Now when I checked it again the previous error with a socket is back.
What do you think I am missing?

I am on Windows 10 HOME and studio workstation has Pro edition.

[Karol.Osinski]

Quick update: I can slave my home laptop from the studio workstation so I guess it is something about the studio machine blocking the incoming connections? Is it because they are all plugged directly to our local server??

[glorybound]

I use Chrome Remote Desktop with any issues.

[Karol.Osinski]

Hey Bobby, sorry I think I wasn't clear enough. Controlling machine is not a problem either with Remote Desktop or via Team Viewer (a bit laggier but more stable). I want to use DR and use the office workstation as slave node for my home laptop.

[Karol.Osinski]

UPDATE: VRAY_DR check tool is able to see the target workstation.

[yolov]

Can you ping the IP of the machine you're connecting to? If you use some standard form of VPN this should not be a problem. In most cases it's a firewall thing. What's the OS on the DR machine and your machine?

[yolov]

Also, this whole setup sounds like it could be potentially very slow for rendering, because of the whole lag of transferring data over the internet

[Ihno]

Yea, I got it working a few years back. Isn't worth the effort really. It's suuuper slow.

[Karol.Osinski]

Hey, thank you for replies. I previously contacted ChaosGroup help desk and we couldn't really solve it, though I tried both hamachi and VPN, could ping and telnet my home machine and studio workstation back and forth with no problems. I also opened all the possible ports in Firewall that came to my mind. The only error I was receing was Permission error when I tried to slave my workstation from home, although it WORKED the other way... And I agree with my slow internet at the moment is wasn't a greatest idea since the beginning.