cannot symbolic link to $alarms object on another machines server

[Jeremiah]

i cannot create a symbolic link to $alarm on separate machine. I can locally create one on the same machine if the server and client are running on the same machine. i am trying to acknowledge server alarms from a web player client machine with a pushbutton. In the 'Lookout Developer's Manual' on page 5-35 you can see what i am referring to. The picture shows a symbolic link to a server process and all of the objects show up except the $alarm object. Supposedly, acknowledging alarms from the remote web client machine is possible. Reference 'Lookout Web Client - Monitoring Remote Alarms'
Thanks

[Carl_Finley]

What I have done to work around this is to create a pushbutton (I call it "alarm_ack") in the server process. Then in object explorer, right click $alarm and edit connections. Link the "ack" data member to your "alarm_ack" pushbutton. *(This pushbutton will never appear on a screen)

Now in your client process, create a symbolic link to your server pushbutton. Now create a pushbutton in your client process (I call it "alarm_ack_pb"), for your position source, link it to your symbolic link.

This may be a round about way to get there but it works well.

Hope this helps,
Carl