Help with network rendering

[Headroom]

I've not had a chance to work much on this since my last post.
This is still not working , so I have two perfectly working Win 10 PCs and two activated node licenses but cant use them :/

[OnoSendai]

Hi guys,
First step is to run the network manager on some computer, you probably want to run it on your 'main' computer.
You need to know the host name of that computer.
Now on the slave computers, go to options, in the network tab, enter the hostname of the main computer and enable 'use network manager'. Leave the other boxes unchecked.
Now start a network slave on each slave computer with Tools > 'Start Network Slave' from Indigo.
Hopefully the slaves show show up on the slave list on the network manager.

[SreckoM]

Try to test what happens if one of Windows is master, will it work than.

I have same problem, where my laptop with Win10 is not picked up as slave. Just keeps waiting for master ... I tried using OSX and Win (from MacPro) as master and it does not work. Firewall turned off, antivirus also . Can see that machines, share files etc. Have also Ubuntu machines that works perfectly. Also worth mention is that laptop is connected to network with WiFi others are LAN cables.

[zeitmeister]

This is soooo odd.


Cheers, zeiti

[Polinalkrimizei]

Can't reproduce this here - I have a working Win 10 Laptop slave, and it works both via WiFi or cable. Master works with Win 7 and now also with Win 10.
btw it kinda sucks via WiFi, uploading when rendering with a big resolution can literally take forever!

[zeitmeister]

Can't reproduce this here - I have a working Win 10 Laptop slave, and it works both via WiFi or cable. Master works with Win 7 and now also with Win 10.
btw it kinda sucks via WiFi, uploading when rendering with a big resolution van literally take forever!

The problem seems to be the Mac Master.
Perhaps.


Cheers, zeiti

[Headroom]

@Zeiti
That appears to be correct.

I was confident I had tried this before, anyway, I can now see the slaves in the network manager.
However, the master does not show up.

I tried to see if I can make the mac also show up as a slave but it does not seem to be able to connect to itself.

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Executing '-n s'
Indigo Renderer v3.8.30, OS X 64-bit build.
Licence verified.  
Licence type: Indigo Full Lifetime.  
Licensed to 'xxx@xxx.xxx<Peter Doering>'
Waiting for a master.
While connecting to network manager: Could not make a TCP connection to server 'iMac.local' ([fe80::da30:62ff:fe58:7f3d]:7200), Error code: Host is unreachable.

[Headroom]

More info.
It seems that the slaves cannot connect to the network manager when I use the host name, iMac.local. When I use the IP address of the host - 10.0.1.4 - in the network tab in the indigo options on the slaves then they can connect.

This also works when instead of using it as a master start the network slave on the iMac. Then I have three slaves, but still no master.

[contegufo]

Hi

This software could be used: IP Scanner
di 10base-t Interactive

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[Headroom]

Thanks for that advertisement but I don't think the is going to accomplish much.

[OnoSendai]

Hi Headroom,
Give me an email and we can jump on Skype or similar and try and figure out what's going on here.
nick at indigorenderer.com

[Headroom]

Just a quick update that I finally got this working.
While preparing for a Skype meeting with Ono I tried one more thing I was sure I had tried before and things started working.

The host name of the master computer is "iMac.local" and that is also what is shown as the host name in the Network manager. However, to connect the slaves (on the Windows machines) only using "IMAC" as the host name or the actual IP address of the master (10.0.1.4 in this case) led to a successful connection between the slave and the network manager.

That left me with the task of connecting the master to the Network Manager. I was not able to use the host name. Only using the IP address I was able to connect the master to the Network Manager and then the slaves were involved in rendering.

I would still be interested to know how to get this to work without the network manager.

[OnoSendai]

The problem here, I think, is that DNS resolution won't work for Mac computers on a Windows network, like it does for Windows computers. Therefore you need to know the IP address of your Mac and enter it as the address of the network master. (This is not Indigo's fault btw, it's just how Mac and Windows computers interact on a network)

[Headroom]

Interesting!
So is there a way to get rendering to work without the help of the network manager ?
It's not high priority, I am simply curious whether or not this is possible.

I apologize if my posts indicated that Indigo is at fault. That was certainly not my intention!

[zeitmeister]

I never used the network manager, to be honest.
Just activated the clients, activated network rendering on the master and there I go.

I really like indigo network rendering a lot; it is sooo simple and that robust... rock-solid.


Cheers, zeiti