Re: caget return timeout

[Mauro Giacchini <Mauro.Giacchini@lnl.infn.it>]

May you start checking:

All Windows firewalls are turned off ?
All Linux firewalls are turned off ?
Both machine are into the same subnet? (ie LinuxIP = a.b.c.x and WinIP = 
a.b.c.y ?)

Hope this helps,
Mauro.

Roberto Capobianco wrote:
> Hi all,
> I am new to Epics world. This is my problem.
>
> I installed epics 3.14 on two machines, one with fedora 10 and one 
> with Windows XP SP3. No problem here.
> I want to try the communication between them.
> So i built an application from example template on both the machines. 
> No problem here.
>
> Then on the linux machine i setted the variables
> export EPICS_CA_ADDR_LIST=(windows ip)
> export EPICS_CA_AUTO_ADDR_LIST=NO
>
> and on the windows machine i setted the variables
> set EPICS_CA_ADDR_LIST=(linux ip)
> set EPICS_CA_AUTO_ADDR_LIST=NO
>
> I launched the applications without any error. I can see PVs with dbl 
> command on both the machines.
>
> Ok. Now when i do the command caget userHost:aiExample on the linux 
> machine i can read the value but
> when i do the same command on the windows machine caget return the 
> message "Channel connect timed out: userHost:aiExample not found".
>
> The user is different between the two machines.
> caRepeater is running on both machines.
>
> What's wrong ? Thank You.
>
> Robert

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