After applying the above settings click on “OK” then expand “My Computer” in the dcomcnfg window and click on “DCOM Config”.ī. Click on the Edit Default button in the Launch and Activation Permission section.ģ)Ğdit the OpcEnum Entry in DCOM SettingsĪ. I.Ğnsure that the “Everyone” group has full permissions for local and remote access.Į. Click on the Edit Default button in the Access Permissions section. Click on the Edit Limits button in the Launch and Activation Permission section.ĭ. Ii.Ğnsure that the “Everyone” group has access to both local and remote access.Ĭ. I.Ědd ANONYMOUS LOGON to the Group or user names list, and give it full access to local and remote settings. Click the Edit Limits button in the Access Permissions section. Browse back to the screen shown above and select the COM Security tabī. Set the Default Impersonation Level to Identify.Ģ) On the computer with RSLinx: (Note, it should be possible to skip this step and instead apply these settings only to the next to DCOM areas in steps 3 and 4, but if you’re okay with it you can change the global settings which have been tested and will work for a fact)Ī. Set the Default Authentication Level to Default. Make sure “Enable Distributed COM on this computer” is checked Right click on My Computer, and select Properties. Launch the DCOM configurator by clicking on the start menu then typing “dcomcnfg”Ĭ. Step 1: Configure DCOM Settings on both computers: 1) On BOTH ComputersĪ.

A second Windows computer with Ignition installed.

A computer with RSLinx Classic and RSLogix Emulate (for my testing I used 5000).

Two computers (or VMs) that can communicate to each other using IP addresses and computer names.

Note: Because this uses OPC-DA (because RSLinx does not yet support OPC-UA), this will only work on Windows (unless an OPC-DA client has been released for the linux version since last I used Ignition) While doing testing I found a way to use the OPC-DA connection to create a link between 2 computers and read values from an RSLinx topic I had created to an emulated PLC.

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