reading file from remote computer

[Dost]

Hi

I want to read a text file  in my labview application from a remote computer. the remote computer is not a Datasocket server . how can i read a file in this case using labview 7.1

[tst]

If you can define the remote drive as a network drive, you can simply feed the network path of the file directly into the file VIs on your local computer. If you can't, you will probably need to run a program on the other computer which will "read" the file and send it to your program. Search the example finder for TCP to see some examples of how to work with TCP\IP.

[Dai]

Hi,

Look at this nice article about a simple tcp/ip protocol. It is easy and fast to implement.

http://zone.ni.com/devzone/conceptd.nsf/webmain/0986799C984500F886256F170079411E