access to serial port on remote PC?
Hello... here's one for you all....
Running a home network... all the PCs are running XP Home.
One of the PCs upstairs is dedicated to running a weather station.. weather data is saved on an external unit which communicates with the PC vis the COM1 serial port.
I want to run the weather program from another PC on the network - however the program looks for the serial port connection on the PC on which it is running ... which means that I cant run it properly remotely.
Any brains out there can tell me how I can get round this?
Almost certainly involves logging onto the remote PC from another PC - I know this has been done on Windows 2000 server with Terminal services Client or something - but cant see how to do this on XP Home Edition.
Can anyone help?
Ta...
FLB