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    First of all, make sure you have a full node running and fully synced
All machines need to be connected to the same local network (e.g same wi-fi)
Node configuration

On the computer with the full node, find the local IP address:
On MacOS/Linux you can use
ifconfig

And should return something like
en1: flags=8863<UP,BROADCAST,SMART,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> mtu 1500
	ether e4:ce:8f:0e:33:c4 
	inet6 fe80::404:8467:3244:a799%en1 prefixlen 64 secured scopeid 0x7 
	inet 192.168.178.107 netmask 0xffffff00 broadcast 192.168.178.255
	inet6 2001:7e8:c8de:2000:c40:7f55:b1ca:4fbe prefixlen 64 autoconf secured 
	inet6 2001:7e8:c8de:2000:bc3c:2b79:8478:693b prefixlen 64 autoconf temporary 
	nd6 options=201<PERFORMNUD,DAD>
	media: autoselect
	status: active

What we need is our IP address as well as the CIDR notation of it
The important part is the line with inet

inet 192.168.178.107 netmask 0xffffff00 broadcast 192.168.178.255

With that, we will be able to calculate the CIDR address for the sugarchainf.conf
So in my case, the IP of the full node is 192.168.178.107
The netmask is 0xffffff00
in https://www.subnetonline.com/pages/subnet-calculators/dec-to-hex-calculator.php enter your netmask

and copy the subnet mask, in my case it's 255.255.255.0
Now on https://www.subnet-calculator.com/cidr.php enter your IP and your mask

and copy the net CIDR notation, in my case it's 192.168.178.0/24
Now open your sugarchain.conf file and modify as follow
server=1
rpcbind=192.168.178.107
rpcuser=user
rpcpassword=pass
rpcallowip=127.0.0.1
rpcallowip=192.168.178.0/24

notice the rpcbind is the full node IP and the last rpcallowip is our IP in CIDR notation, this will allow anyone in our local network to connect to our node.
Miner

Now on any computer connected to the same network, just run the miner using the node IP
For example with sugarmaker (don't forget to change the options accordingly to your own configuration)
 ./sugarmaker -o http://192.168.178.107:34229 -u user -p pass --coinbase-addr=sugar1q3hjg38ygedjz96e7vyvsju36q2muke439t3237 -t1

With remote server

If you have some remote computer like a VPS and you want to make them mine on your computer, you would need to Remote Port Forward through SSH.
To connect to SSH

ssh -R localhost:31337:192.168.178.107:34229 IP_SERVER
Note that I used the IP from rpcbind in localhost:31337:192.168.178.107:34229, so make sure to replace it with the one of your sugarchain.conf
To mine on your server

./sugarmaker -o http://localhost:31337 -u user -p pass --coinbase-addr=sugar1q3hjg38ygedjz96e7vyvsju36q2muke439t3237 -t1

Don't forget to change the options accordingly to your own configuration
Note if you mine with multiple device

To add some randomness on your block generation, and to avoid duplicate works (same miner with the same template with the same nonce would produce the same hash), it's advice to have a different coinbase-addr for each of your miner
Happy mining :)