Student License Swarm nodes

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Hello,

I recently bought a student license of V-Ray for Rhino. I was trying to set up a render node with Vray Swarm, but I the node always turns unstable when I try to use it for a render.
1) First I tried to install only Vray swarm on the render node using system license configuration. But it didn’t work.
2) Then I installed Rhino and vray (with license server and vray swarm) still using system license configuration and it didn’t work either.
3) Then after reading some posts in the forum I switched the “use system license configuration” off using the other computer IP address (192.168.0.105:30304) but it doesn’t work either.
The logs show this error:
error: Could not obtain a license (1002): All the licenses for this product are currently engaged.

I can’t find anywhere whether the student version has the possibility to use renders nodes. Does it have? If yes, what am I doing wrong?
If not, can I use the other computer to render and not the one I’m working on? How do I do that?

Thanks

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The render license is always engaged by the local machine to render with when you use V-Ray/Rhino. That means that you don’t have a free license for the second machine.
To render on a different machine you can:
- Pack the project from “V-Ray” menu->“Pack project” in Rhino. After that - transfer it to the second machine, open it in Rhino and render
or
- Export the scene in .vrscene format and render it command line to the second machine (provided you already installed and configured SWARM on it)
To export use “V-Ray” menu->V-Ray rendering->Export VRScene

After that, you can send the render to the machine with SWARM - for example for V-Ray for Rhino 5

“C:\Program Files\Chaos Group\V-Ray\V-Ray for Rhinoceros 5\vrayappsdk\bin\vray.exe” -scenefile=“FULL_PATH_TO_VRSCENE_FILE” -distributed=2 -transferassets=1 -renderhost=“Computer with SWARM IP ADDRESS” -portnumber=20208

The .vrscene option will work however if you’ve initiated a render from inside V-Ray in Rhino to the slave machine at least once, so the slave machine will have a V-Ray build uploaded through SWARM.