After some messing around, I got NR installed on my single computer for network rendering. Seemed like I had to start and restart service a lot before the Monitor on that computer would find and connect. Tried all different combinations of manager hostnames and ports, my preference was to just let everything auto-detect, but that didn't seem to work for about 2 hours of tinkering, then finally it took and is now still connected.
But.
On my local workstation, I cannot for the life of me to get the monitor to connect to the manager. I have the IP address of the NR node, I've tried autodiscovery and using my own manager hostnames and ports, always making sure they match. I hgad KS8 NR up and running successfully, but I can't seem to get the monitor on my machine to recoginze the NR master on the other machine and connect. Both installs were done over the last 2 days, so should be compatible versions. Not sure what I'm doing wrong or how to get past this. I did leave the boxes ticked in the installer to use the proper firewall settings and stuff.