[Help] Distributed Rendering Spawner AMONG far-away PCs

[jamesjeong]

Hi.

 

Me and my team members are trying to connect several PCs to utilize the Distributed Rendering Spawner, which is known as one of the most fancy way to render images.

 

But unfortunately, we bumped into a connecting problem.

(though it is proved not to be an actual problem, it seems like a problem currently to me.)

 

The point is that,

 

1. My PC is located in my house over 10km away from my office, where the other PCs are located.

2. I checked my IP and it was 192.168.1.7.

3. And my colleague put my IP information in the main PC (also located in the office) and tried to start distributed rendering spawner.

4. But the faiilure msg was as below, according to my colleague who are now controlling the main PC in the office.

 

Could not connect to host 192.168.1.7

 

5. I think this was because of the IP allocation problem or Local Network issue, that is to say,

the main PC now cannot find my computer using this IP.

6. Is Distributed Rendering Spawner only available between PCs in the same LAN?

7. Or, does it still work well between PCs in the different network,

for example,

Between slave PC in my room in Tokyo and the main PC in New York ?

8. What can be the solution for this matter ?

 

Sorry for my poor English and your any response or reply would be highly welcomed to me and my team.

 

Best regards,

Edited September 22, 2013 by jamesjeong

[Scott Dombrowski]

2. I checked my IP and it was 192.168.1.7.

 

The 192.168.xxx.xxx IP range is generally reserved for other machines on the same LAN. In your case, that's the IP address your home router gave to your home PC. What you'll need is your external IP, the address given to your router by your ISP. From your home PC, visit http://www.whatsmyip.org to find out what your external IP is. You'll likely need to set up port forwarding on your router to get the data to your home PC.

 

Having said all this, unless you have a really fast internet connection, I wonder how much speed improvement you'll get by using distributed rendering over the internet. By the time the scene gets uploaded to your home PC, your office PC will probably be mostly done with the image. But go ahead and give it a try. Let us know how it works out.