I'm trying to perform a small expirement - I would like a control in a VI on one computer to publish and subscribe to another control in a different VI on a different computer on the same LAN.(and vice versa) The idea is to be able to manipulate both controls from either computer.(each control should track the other)
I have a VI on computer A and a VI on computer B. Both computers are on the same LAN.
Each VI consists of a single numeric control.
I setup the control on VI A to publish and subscribe to dstp://computerA/new.
I setup the control on VI B to publish and subscribe to the same URL, dstp://computerA/new.
Datasocket server is running on A.
The control on B reflects all changes on A,as I ha
d hoped. However changes in B are not reflected on A. My guess is this is because there is no datasocket server running on B. What I was hoping was that I could publish remotely - have computer B publish on computer A's datasocket server.
So one might say "Start a datasocket server on computer B too." The problem is, when you right-click a control in a VI and select Data Operations>>Datasocket Connection and then choose the connection type to be Publish and Subscribe - you have to Publish and Subscribe to the same location. as above, this would be dstp://computerA/new So if I want to subscribe to the dataitem new on remote computer A, I can't publish locally anyway.
Is what I'm trying to do w/ datasockets even possible? If it can be done and you know how, please help. If you don't think it can be done this way but have a better approach, that info would also be much appreciated! Also if you have any questions feel free to email me.
Thanks,
Jim
dingler44@postmark.net
