access to serial port on remote PC?

[Fletchers Left Boot]

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

[Memetic]

Do you actually need to RUN it on the remote PC or just see the output?

If the latter, try using windows remote assistance (http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/using/helpandsupport/learnmore/remoteassist/intro.mspx) or VNC (www.realvnc.com)

Best regards

Memetic

[Fletchers Left Boot]

Downloaded VNC - works a treat!

Thank you!


FLB