connecting PCs via GPIB in Labview

[pir]

Is there a way to connect two PCs via GPIB, both running a Labview program? I just want to excange text files between them. The GPIB cards are PCMCIA-GPIB cards from NI.

[LesHammer]

You can, but you might not enjoy it.
I don't have the specifics for your GPIB cards, so I don't know how to do it for them, but in a previous job we put one of the GPIB cards in a non-System Controller mode. Then we could make it look like an instrument. Sorry I can't provide more details as it has proprietary code in it. But hopefully it gives you a place to start.

Les Hammer

[Dennis_Knutson]

As Les said, it's not exactly trivial. A similar question came up on the GPIB forum http://exchange.ni.com/servlet/ProcessRequest?RHIVEID=101&RPAGEID=135&HOID=506500000008000000FAD1000.... Personally, I would use either the serial ports or install a NIC in each pc.

[RJay]

NIC in each PC is probably the best (and cheapest) way to go. Definitely the easiest.