you have file sharing and other things like it turned on?

artnet uses the lowest priority network packets called udp packets - which are considered to be dispensable - delivery is not guaranteed - ever

Quote Originally Posted by sam-hunt View Post
I do indeed, but I need to in order for the Macbook and the server to be triggered from the console. Also, the other port on the server is being used for the data network, so I don't want to run control over that.

The server is seeing the incoming Artnet commands, but it's not actually doing anything with them.