# Another (much dreaded) DR question

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**Category:** Issues\
**Created:** [February 5, 2012, 11:03pm UTC](https://forums.chaos.com/t/another-much-dreaded-dr-question/40243 "2012-02-05T23:03:16Z")\
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**Author:** ![simmsimaging](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/chaosprd/user_avatar/forums.chaos.com/simmsimaging/32/49287_2.png) [@simmsimaging](https://forums.chaos.com/u/simmsimaging)\
**Post date:** [February 5, 2012, 11:03pm UTC](https://forums.chaos.com/t/another-much-dreaded-dr-question/40243/1 "2012-02-05T23:03:16Z")

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Generally DR is flawless for me - with the odd re-start fixable glitch. One thing that is a minor issue: my primary workstation is also my license server. It renders everything just fine, but when it acts as a DR slave when rendering from another machine I often have trouble getting it to kick in. The vray log often shows the connection as refused, but eventually it picks up and goes, or occasionally I can just restart the spawner and it works fine. It almost never works right off though - and sometimes never goes pick up.

Is there something with the license server that might interfere? Otherwise I think it should be all much the same setup, network-wise. This machine is running Vista64 and I’m on Max 2012

/b

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**Author:** ![simmsimaging](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/chaosprd/user_avatar/forums.chaos.com/simmsimaging/32/49287_2.png) [@simmsimaging](https://forums.chaos.com/u/simmsimaging)\
**Post date:** [February 5, 2012, 11:04pm UTC](https://forums.chaos.com/t/another-much-dreaded-dr-question/40243/2 "2012-02-05T23:04:22Z")

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p.s the firewall is off for this, and the 30304 port is also manually opened. Again: no issues with DR at all when initiating from this machine, only when it’s acting as a render node.

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**Author:** ![vlado](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/779978/32.png) [@vlado](https://forums.chaos.com/u/vlado)\
**Post date:** [February 7, 2012, 6:31pm UTC](https://forums.chaos.com/t/another-much-dreaded-dr-question/40243/3 "2012-02-07T18:31:39Z")

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Argh, the lovely Vista 🙂 Can you get me the exact error messages for the refused connection?

Best regard,  
Vlado

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**Author:** ![simmsimaging](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/chaosprd/user_avatar/forums.chaos.com/simmsimaging/32/49287_2.png) [@simmsimaging](https://forums.chaos.com/u/simmsimaging)\
**Post date:** [February 7, 2012, 11:05pm UTC](https://forums.chaos.com/t/another-much-dreaded-dr-question/40243/4 "2012-02-07T23:05:39Z")

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🙂 Sorry. I would upgrade to 7 but on 5 machines that’s a lot of cash right now!

The message says:  
warning: could not connect to host 192.18.0.113: No connection could be made because the target machine actively refused it.

Sometimes it will still pick up though, and sometimes I get this message from other nodes but usually only when they are still restarting teh spawner etc, and the others always pick up very quickly.

Thanks for looking into it!  
b