Installing 8300 Pc Remote Control Software; Installing The Necessary Windows Services; Check Hardware Requirements - Orban Optimod-FM 8300 Operating Manual

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Installing 8300 PC Remote Control Software

This section briefly summarizes the procedure for installing 8300 PC Remote soft-
ware on existing 8300s. If required, you will find more detailed instructions in the
.pdf file automatically installed on your computer by Orban's installer program,
Setup8300_x.x.x.x.exe, where "x.x.x.x" represents the software version you are
installing. (For example, for version 1.0 software, this would be 1.0.0.0.)
The PC Remote software is supplied on a CD shipped with your 8300. You can also
download it from ftp.orban.com/8300.
Instructions for using the PC Remote software begin on page 3-60.

Installing the Necessary Windows Services

The 8300 PC Remote application uses Windows' built-in communications and net-
working services to deal with the low-level details necessary to communicate with
the 8300's serial port. (These services are also used to upgrade your 8300's firmware
when updates are available from Orban.) The exact process will vary, depending on
how you wish to set up the communications. That is:

If you want to communicate through a local PC, you will need to establish a con-
nection between a serial (COM) port of the PC and the COM port of your 8300
through a null modem cable (supplied with your 8300). You will then use Win-
dows Direct Serial Connect to make the basic connection.

If you want to communicate through a pair of modems, you will use the Win-
dows Dial-Up networking service to make the connection.
You must install the appropriate communications services in Windows (if they
are not already installed) before you can run 8300 Remote software. You may
therefore need to have access to the Windows install disk(s) — or have their im-
age copied onto your computer's hard drive — before you attempt to use the
8300 PC Remote application.
In all cases, regardless of whether your PC communicates to the 8300
through its serial port or Ethernet connector, it uses the ppp and the
TCP/IP protocols to communicate with the 8300.

Check Hardware Requirements

To connect your PC to your 8300, regardless of the method you choose, you will
need the following:

Orban 8300 OPTIMOD-FM.

If connecting by serial cable: a null modem cable (also called a "reverse" cable),
supplied by Orban with your 8300 when it was shipped. This cable has DB9 fe-
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