Hi James Just to apreciate your attention and thanks for your information. Until now we didn´t receive any further development, we understand since we didn´t pay to have some periority. unfortunately we have give up from crowdrender just because it doesn´t work with large files and keeps going down from local area network. We have 100% succeed the implementation of Farmer Joe addon that they have just finish the update to Blender 2.80 until 2.83. Just need local area network drive mapped on all nodes and blender installed on all nodes and hit start render on master and voila. After this last 4 day of testing is just as quickly as we add more nodes. Now we have finish the setup for 6 nodes, I7 16gb ram + rtx2060 with same master to submit jobs. We had rendertimes for one single image of 2 hours more or less and now the same image has a render time of more or less 10 minutes. Anyway thank you for your feedback, hope you have sucess with this one. Regards, Ricardo

Hi James I'm not a programmer just an Architect but it seems to me that thay just open the file in each node in background to render. Then during the render some how between nodes and master each node receive feedback for what to render next. Example, we open the master with all nodes ready, open a file and submit a new job saving the job. In this moment the addon knows were is the file and all data needed. When we hit render the addon open the file in background on each node and receive a diferent tile to render in case we are rendering just ona image in several nodes. So it seems on this methot each node doesnt need to transfer all data because each node is opening the same file like we do with a normal work, and receive information about what to render. Then when each tile finish the addon update the information and sends another tile until it finish the entire image. Hope you understand what i m trying to say. Regards Ricardo

Hi I will do it Thank you

Anyone has passthrouth this problem? I will give up since i can´t until know Sync any of the nodes with large files. All nodes with same configurations, we have a full duplex gigabit lan and the same network drive assigned to all nodes. Copy and paste files is ok in that network drive on all nodes. Small files until 30 or 50 mb crowdrender works fine but when it comes to network render with large files 500 mb or 1,2 gb it just doesn´t work. It would be a great help if anyone has resolve this kind of problem. Thank you in advance