I'm going to try and keep this simple, because if I go too much into detail, I'm 100% sure the topic would quickly get bogged down. A few simple tips might be all I need, to get me going. I've been using LabView for about a year. Now I need to try something I haven't done before. What I want to do: 1) Run a piece of software on PC1. This software would be acting to monitor the USB, to receive commands or files, from PC2. This program on PC1 can be a labview program or some TBD program. 2) PC2 would be able to send script files to PC1 3) Scripts would be run on PC1 and return data (txt) back to labview on PC2 My problem is, in handling the communications. What is the best way of going about handling the communications? I'd prefer to use USB. But I could use COM ports which might simplify things. But for this discussion, let's assume USB only. I just need to be able to send/receive text files between PC, using LabView on one end (or both ends, whichever makes more sense). Mike

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Ok, now let me ask this update question.

I have labview running on both PCs and communicating with each other. I'm using a version of the client / server examples.

What I'd like to do now is the same thing, but use wireless (Wi-Fi) instead of the hard ethernet connection. Is that possible and what would be the modifications to achieve that?

Thanks,

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You shouldn't need to make any changes. LabVIEW doesn't care whether it is a hard-wired ethernet connection, or wireless. All it cares about is the IP address and that you are using TCP/IP.