Hi James, great explanation, I got it to work! Thank you! So the main tasks for this to work are absolute paths and the same drive letter (and paths) on all systems, right?

Hi James! Thanks a lot for the ultra fast reply. I'll give this a try now 😁

PS2. The motif is a beer can with a texture and fire behind it. Now I suddenly get the can in magenta withoug the texture and the usal wrong black background without the fire. Strange.

PS. Rendering locally on the node within the mapped drive works as expected: the fire is rendered just as on the client.

Hi James, sorry for te late reply but I wanted to try out different stuff before coming back with more information. The steps were: 1. I have set Path settings in both Blenders (client and node) like in the screenshots. 2. I chose FIle > External Data > Make All Paths Relative 3. I saved th eproject file. 4. I made sure that my drive E: on the client is mounted via network to the node and mapped also as E: When I start the render from Crowd Render panel the 25% of the tiles are rendered on the client first and after that the rest on the node (not simultaniously). The result is that the client tiles have fire as they should and the node's tiles have blackness where the fire should be. Do you have any idea what I am missing see? Settings on the client: Settings on the node: Client's local drive and project folder: Node's mapped network drive from client (both E:):