Accessing Serial Port Remotely

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Hello Everyone,

I wrote an application which send and receive data from a pinpad(device with RS-232 which use serial port) and i start testing the application, when i finised testing the application on my computer, I upload it to the server machine to do another test but when I run the application from client computers it does not recognize the pin pad, but when I run the application from my computer it works properly. My question is that is there any way I can access the pin pad remotely?

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Posted 15-Jul-09 21:16pm

Liya Kebede

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Garth J Lancaster · Answer 1 · 2009-07-16T00:38:00

Liya Kebede wrote:
is there any way I can access the pin pad remotely?

I dont think so : I think you need to implement a tcp/ip network layer to sit between the serial port and the network and send it commands from your application.

We do this with eftpos devices - they are sent instructions from a centralised gateway via tcp/ip, and the client on the pc interfaces to the com port (via an activex control supplied by the eftpos company) .. (ok, so there's an activex control there, but it doesnt really matter that much)

There are commercial companies out there that offer pre-made toolkits to do this - just a quick search gives :-

http://www.serial-port-communication.com/serial-over-tcpip/[^]

http://www.fabulatech.com/network-serial-port-kit.html[^]

oh .. a thought comes to mind, maybe citrix can do it, but thats a different paradigm

'g'