Remote port communication
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Hi I can connect to the local COM port thru VB.Net How can I connect to a COM port on a remote machine? What URL/URI do I give for the port address: is it "servername:port number" or something else? What is the valid specification to access a remote port? Obviously, I have not yet found any answers to the questions above. Can somebody help me in getting the answers?
Shreekar
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Hi I can connect to the local COM port thru VB.Net How can I connect to a COM port on a remote machine? What URL/URI do I give for the port address: is it "servername:port number" or something else? What is the valid specification to access a remote port? Obviously, I have not yet found any answers to the questions above. Can somebody help me in getting the answers?
Shreekar
You can't. There's no way you can just "connect" to a remote COM port like that. You have to have a remote application running on the target machine to use that machines COM port, then you establish a connection between your local app and the remote app over the network using any method you want, like .NET Remoting, WinSock, ...
Dave Kreskowiak Microsoft MVP - Visual Basic