Controling LabView-Exe over a network

[Pechmann]

Hello out there,

I'm working with LabView 5.1 on NT 4.0 machines in a TCP/IP network.
I'm trying to write a Visual C++ 6.0 application which controls a LabView-Exe
on a remote server.
The Exe was build with the ActiveX-Server enabled.

The application works, starts and controls LabView on the _local_ machine.
To make it work over the network I used the racmgr32.exe and autmgr32.exe
tools shipped with Visual C++.
This configuration won't work.

My Question:
Do I have to make a connection using DCOM or is it possible to use remote-automation
with the racmgr32 + autmgr32 tools ?
Has anybody experience in doing so or can give me a link to an example (including
DCOM) ?

Thanks for any help.
Regards,
Ralf Erdmann

[Johnner]

Ralf,

In case you haven't seen it, there's a good example of the DCOM approach to this in the
Example Programs Database on the NI site:

http://digital.ni.com/explprog.nsf/websearch/3c742d0386e5d13c862568000069d87d

Unfortunately, I don't have any insight on the Visual C++ utility executables you are
using.

Regards,
John Lum
National Instruments

Ralf Erdmann wrote:

> Hello out there,
>
> I'm working with LabView 5.1 on NT 4.0 machines in a TCP/IP network.
> I'm trying to write a Visual C++ 6.0 application which controls a LabView-Exe
> on a remote server.
> The Exe was build with the ActiveX-Server enabled.
>
> The application works, starts and controls LabView on the _local_ machine.
> To make it work over the network I used the racmgr32.exe and autmgr32.exe
> tools
shipped with Visual C++.
> This configuration won't work.
>
> My Question:
> Do I have to make a connection using DCOM or is it possible to use remote-automation
> with the racmgr32 + autmgr32 tools ?
> Has anybody experience in doing so or can give me a link to an example (including
> DCOM) ?
>
> Thanks for any help.
> Regards,
> Ralf Erdmann