"Ged" wrote:

> Hi sbparsons
>
> If I understand you, what you are trying to do it get the client to use IPC
> to talk to the server, which is using TCP?
> If so, then no. You can't do that.
>
> If you want your client to talk to different end points, using different
> channels, then that is possible.
> Also, you can use WCF (part of .NET 3.0) to have your server listen on
> different channels.
> i.e. The client talks to the server using TCP, but the GUI talks to the
> server using IPC.
>
> HTH
>
> --
> Ged Moretta
> Senior Software Engineer
> AppSense Ltd
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> "sbparsons" <sbparsons@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:3266CBE3-F020-4433-8532-074CD75C8578@microsoft.com...
> > Right - I found the problem so please disregard the original post.
> >
> > I had an IPC channel configured in the Client config file and as soon as I
> > commented that out my object was available on the server.
> >
> > I wonder if it's then possible to mix IPC with TCP in this scenario - I
> > was
> > planning on using IPC between the client and a GUI but it looks as though
> > TCP
> > will have to stick.
> >
> > "sbparsons" wrote:
> >
> >> Please could someone let me know if this is possible:
> >>
> >> I have a server object exposed through remoting on one PC and a client
> >> object that gets a proxy to this server object.
> >>
> >> The client object configures and registers a channel as per:
> >>
> >> System.Collections.IDictionary properties;
> >> properties = new System.Collections.Hashtable();
> >> properties["name"] = "client";
> >> properties["priority"] = "1";
> >> properties["port"] = 0;
> >> ChannelServices.RegisterChannel(new
> >> TcpChannel(properties,
> >> null, null), false);
> >>
> >> Once a connection has been made, the client calls the following on the
> >> server proxy:
> >> _remoteMaster.ConnectToLibrary((IClient)this)
> >>
> >> The IClient interface exists on both machines.
> >>
> >> During debugging I can step through to the above line and into it - and
> >> then
> >> on the remote server, I can step through the ConnectToLibrary function
> >> and
> >> all is well until...
> >>
> >> As soon as I attempt to reference a property on the IClient object I get
> >> the
> >> following error:
> >> "Failed to connect to an IPC Port: The system cannot find the file
> >> specified."
> >>
> >> The strange thing is the IPC reference, as I am using TCP.
> >> Though this scenario did work while I had both master and client on the
> >> same
> >> machine (though not referencing each other).
> >>
> >> I hope that this scenario is clear. Looking forward to a bit of help on
> >> this
> >> one.
>