Backburner one direction only

[Tom Hamelrijckx]

Hi guys,

 

I'm running two machines in a local network, connected through LAN.

Backburner is behaving weird in this network: when I run manager on computer1 and server on computer2, they don't find eachother. However, when I run manager on computer2 and server on computer1, it works.

Anybody knows how to solve this?

 

It seems to me that the server of computer2 is faulty; it's not even recognized by the manager of the same computer... Reinstalling everything didn't help...

 

Thanks for helping me out!

[BrianKitts]

Sounds like a firewall issue, not a backburner issue. Check both system's firewall properties and be sure that it has exceptions to allow backburner to communicate.

[Tim Fairbanks]

... and if it doesn't appear to be a firewall issue...

 

verify your machine names & IP addresses on the manager & server.

 

Depending on your network, the Backburner managers and servers may only work with IP addresses rather than machine names (or vice versa).

 

If your network is assigning dynamic IP addresses (DHCP), the IP's may change occasionally, so you might have to "Ping" the machines to get the correct IP's.

[Tom Hamelrijckx]

... Indeed a firewall issue. Before posting this, I tried resolving it with the firewall turned off, but finally it turned out it was bugged and it never closed. :-)

 

Thanks for your help!