Thanks for the quick and detailed reply. This is very helpful. Looking forward to the new CR system! Will recommend CR to friends if I can get this working ;) Setting up a VPN sounds very neat but might be too complicated for my use case for now, but will give a try if things scale up. For port forwarding, I've actually tried something similar. My server has a public ip address so I tried connecting to the node from my main computer by putting the server's public ip address directly in the 'ip address' field but failed. I can ssh onto the server so it should be accessible... I'm guessing it's because some ports are closed or the node is trying to setup the server interface in local network but not the public network? Could you please elaborate on how I should set it up? Thanks! More info about my specific setup. I'm using headless blender on the server. So I used this command to start blender and CR: blender -noaudio -b --python ~/.config/blender/2.80/scripts/addons/crowdrender/src/bl_2_8_79/serv_int_start.py -- -t "server_int_proc" and the output looks like: Blender 2.80 (sub 55) (hash a3b88c917299 built 2019-04-10 23:01:45) Read prefs: /home/username/.config/blender/2.80/config/userpref.blend found bundled python: /home/username/blender/2.80/python not running set_cr_path, context wrong Crowd Render Server Interface Process ready (('127.0.1.1', '127.0.1.1', 'address of your network device for this computer'),)