VISA error under Devices and Interfaces in a Remote VISA Server

[LegalEngineer]

VISA error occured under Devices and Interfaces catagory in a remote server. The discription of error is attached below. I checked all the possible reasons and found no problem. Is there any other reason to check?

viFindRsrc returned 0xBFFF00A7 (The remote machine does not exist or is not accepting any connections.)

Please make sure the VISA server is running on the remote machine and that both this machine and the remote machine are plugged into the network.

Possible causes for this error:
1. The remote machine name may be incorrectly specified (either the name was misspelled or the wrong IP address was typed in).
2. The remote machine may not be turned on.
3. The VISA server has not been sta
rted on the remote machine.
4. The VISA server was started but is either suspended or is no longer running on the remote machine.
5. Either the local machine or the remote machine is not connected to the network.
6. There is a network configuration problem, such as an improperly assigned IP address, an incorrectly configured routing table, or a firewall between the local and remote machine.

[Russell_G.]

One thing you can do to narrow down the problem is to try and use the VI Server with Measurement and Automation Explorer (MAX). If you continue to get the error using MAX, then the problem is most likely in your setup. This http://zone.ni.com/devzone/conceptd.nsf/webmain/790B808B320DCF6F86256BE2006965E6?opendocument>link may help.

Another possible cause is that VISA has trouble with computer names that have an underscore in them, and this may be the problem that you are experiencing. Remove the underscore and try again. For example: if the client's name is NETWORK_TEST, on the server side, give permission for access to NETWORK-TEST or NETWORKTEST

Russell G.
NI Applications Engineer