I have my dongle on pc 192.168.137.1 (have two network ports, one for internet and one for local network), and i use my laptop 192.168.137.5 ,
when i render from …1, pc …5 connects and render fine;
but when render from …5 , …1 vray log shows me this:
[2016/Apr/13|14:21:48] dr host: 192.168.137.1:20204
[2016/Apr/13|14:21:53] warning: Could not connect to host 192.168.137.1:20204: Connection timeout
[2016/Apr/13|14:21:53] warning: Could not use any of the selected (1) hosts for distributed rendering!
[2016/Apr/13|14:21:53] warning: Local machine is not used for distributed rendering and no slaves can join! --> i was expecting this, i was not using local pc to exclude it from the render
Please check your firewall or router configuration. You can disable the firewall on 192.168.137.1 just for a test.
Have you started V-Ray spawner on this machine manually or it is registered as a service?
Yes, if i disable firewall, DR works fine, How could i add an exception to let vray DR work?, i cant find the proper answer to that on vray documentation.
Any help?
Please do the following in order to add a firewall exception for V-Ray spawner on machine 192.168.137.1
*) Open Windows firewall
*) Click on Allow an app or feature through Windows firewall from the field on the left
*) In the next window click on Allow another app… and Browse for the V-Ray spawener exe - C:\Program Files\Autodesk\3ds Max 2016\vrayspawner2016.exe - for V-Ray/Max 2016 installed to the default location
*) Click on Add
I will see if we can add an option to the installer to do that automatically during the installation process.