Yes, Laurie, that helped: enormously. Tidying up my material library... I noticed that having multiple "" statements in an .xml will generate as many libraries in P2L, so I'm trying to consolidate labraries, not just xmls.

Oh, I'm still doing something wrong with my network rendering setup... sorry about this huge msg dump, but it illustrates what LuxRender/LuxConsole (on the servers) is doing

[2011-03-13 17:17:30 Info: 0] GUI: Updating framebuffer...
[2011-03-13 17:17:38 Info: 0] Getting samples from: 192.168.0.5:18018
[2011-03-13 17:17:42 Info: 0] GUI: Updating framebuffer...
[2011-03-13 17:17:54 Info: 0] GUI: Updating framebuffer...
[2011-03-13 17:17:59 Error: 2] Error while communicating with server: 192.168.0.5:18018
[2011-03-13 17:17:59 Error: 2] A connection attempt failed because the connected party did not properly respond after a period of time, or established connection failed because connected host has failed to respond
[2011-03-13 17:17:59 Info: 0] Trying to reconnect server: 192.168.0.5:18018
[2011-03-13 17:17:59 Info: 0] Connecting server: 192.168.0.5:18018
[2011-03-13 17:18:07 Info: 0] GUI: Updating framebuffer...
[2011-03-13 17:18:19 Info: 0] GUI: Updating framebuffer...
[2011-03-13 17:18:20 Info: 0] Writing film status to file
[2011-03-13 17:18:20 Error: 2] Unable to connect server: 192.168.0.5:18018
[2011-03-13 17:18:21 Info: 0] All servers are aligned
[2011-03-13 17:18:39 Info: 0] Film transmission done (189141 Kbytes sent)
[2011-03-13 17:18:39 Info: 0] Film status written to 'C:/Users/Hahn/Documents/Poser Pro 2010/LuxRenderFiles/Explore04.flm'
[2011-03-13 17:18:40 Info: 0] Writing Tonemapped PNG image to file C:/Users/Hahn/Documents/Poser Pro 2010/LuxRenderFiles/Explore04.png
[2011-03-13 17:18:43 Info: 0] GUI: Updating framebuffer...
[2011-03-13 17:18:55 Info: 0] GUI: Updating framebuffer...

...over and over again. I have LuxConsole loading automatically when I bring up the 'server' (the PC not running LuxRender) like in a TaskManager thingie. I've checked, and it loads, and is waiting for Luxrender to come and play. I've also allowed port 18018 to be accessed by LuxConsole and LuxRender, both incoming and outgoing in the Securities/Firewall section for both client and server. And it seems that although my router seems to be a DHCP thingie, it is statically assigning IP addresses to my different systems, which is kind-of nice, really.

Any ideas?

Monterey/Mint21.x/Win10 - Blender3.x - PP11.3(cm) - Musescore3.6.2

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