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I have two pc and i want to use a gpib connected to one of these like a remote device for the other pc. The pc with gpib local device has labview 5 the other with gpib as remote device has the version 6.i.How i can do it?if it possibile respond to me soon and give me the documentations to do it.
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Hi GIUGIU,

The labview version should not make that big of a difference. It sounds to me like you want to do PC-PC communication over GPIB. Once you have that, you can make one computer act however you like. There is some good information in our knowledgebases, but let me put some information here.

In the GPIB configuration utility, make sure one computer is marked as system controller and the second computer is not. On the non-system controller, change the primary address to something other than 0 ( the address for the system controller ).

Use the GPIB example provided with LabVIEW (c:\examples\Instr\smplgpib.llb). Open 'LabVIEW<->GPIB.vi' on both computers.

On the non-system controller, go to the block diagram and remove the GPIB address wire to
the GPIB READ and GPIB WRITE functions. The reason is that a talker/Listener does not address anyone. It simply talks and listens when told.

Now go to the system controller and execute a write. Then execute a read on the non-system controller.
To go the other direction, execute a read on the sys controller and then a write on the non-sys controller.

If you are looking to make your computer look like a device, you might consider NI-Device. You can find more information on that here: http://sine.ni.com/apps/we/nioc.vp?cid=7151〈=US.

Hope this helps out!

Best Regards,
Aaron K.
Application Engineer
National Instruments
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