Using NI-VISA Remote Server

[smithms2]

Hi,

I am trying out the NI-VISA Remote Server. I essentially launched it from the Start menu and saw the little icon pop in the system tray area. However, according to the NI-VISA User's manual, I am to configure the host access to the server via the MAX.
When I launched MAX, I did not see anything that would allow me to do so. (I refreshed and refreshed..nothing)

Thinking that this could have been a typo, I tried accessing the server from a client using the following connection string: visa://myhost/gpib0::22.

I received an error stating that access was denied.
How do I fix this?

Thanks for your time and assistance,
MS

[Dan_Mondrik]

MS:

When you launch MAX, go to Tools>>NI-VISA>>VISA Options. Go to the security tab and enter your client's hostname or IP address in the listbox. If you have ever used LabVIEW with remote VI server, you will notice that this configuration is almost identical to its TCPIP Access preferences dialog.

After you do that, then the next time you try that access from your client machine, it ought to work fine.

Dan Mondrik
Senior Software Engineer, NI-VISA
National Instruments

[SE1W]

I see the "General Settings" and "Conflict Manager" tabs but I do not see the Security tab.  I am guessing that I do not have the "Remote NI-VISA Server" installed.  How do I download it?

I am running on a PC with Windows 7 64-bit.

[MarcBAE]

Know this is old but since it's a) gone unresolved and b) a problem I overcame recently, I figured I'd answer it for future reference.

The knowledge base instructions for the client/server setup are a bit ambiguous in that they only mention VISA Run-Time:

http://digital.ni.com/public.nsf/allkb/F3AB0B5D7DBA367C86257982005BBF2C

In fact, if you don't see the VISA Server option in step one, you need to install it via NI-VISA. I wasn't able to find the exact option in the NI-VISA setup  so I just let it install the default and viola, VISA Server option now appears.