Deployment error with LabVIEW 8.0 using a Desktop PC as a RT Target

Question

Hello!
I am attempting to use LabVIEW Real-Time 8.0 with a desktop PC as the RT Target.
Everything appears fine when I look at the computer using MAX. I can fiddle with the Target’s IP, install software and transfer files between my Windows machine and the RT machine without any difficulties.
To get started with LabVIEW I have followed the instructions in NI’s document: "Getting Started with the LabVIEW Real-Time Module".
( A copy may be found at this location: http://www.ni.com/pdf/manuals/371375a.pdf )
My difficulties arise under the "Creating a Real-Time Project and Application" subsection, which begins on page 8 of the document.
I follow the instructions to create a project using the Real-Time Project Wizard and all goes well – I can connect to the target without issue in LabVIEW and monitor its performance with the Real-Time System Manager – until I try to deploy and run the VIs on the RT Target.
The deployment process fails nearly without exception every time I try to deploy any of the dependent VIs using the Project Explorer (I say nearly because maybe 1/100 times a VI is deployed successfully). I believe all the permissions have been properly set (in both LabVIEW and Windows) to allow the host and the target to communicate and collect data so I am not sure what the problem is.
Interestingly enough, VILIB dependencies always deploy successfully -- And the intrigue does not end there! If I build a standalone Real-Time application (like that detailed on pages 18-21 of the manual linked above) I am able to deploy to the RT Target. Setting the application to run on startup, the RT computer successfully reboots and is able to generate a sine wave and I can view using the host VI on My Computer.
I would like to be able to build and deploy VIs freely using the Project Explorer but am not sure how to achieve this seemingly simple goal. If anyone has encountered a problem similar to mine even feels that they know if the problem is related to hardware or software the help would be much appreciated.
Thanks,
Tom

Answer 1

Bob,
My System uses Windows XP. I use MAX 4.0.0.3001 to install software on the Real-Time computer. I am using LabVIEW 8.0 to deploy VIs to the Real-Time System. Also, if its any help, I am a D-Link DGE-550T Gigabit Ethernet Adapter.
The Remote System uses LabVIEW Real-Time 8.0. Note that a fair amount of software to add functionality to the system has also been installed here from My System via MAX.
Here is an example of how my Deployment fails:
I follow the instructions in "Getting Started with the LabVIEW Real-Time Module" and create a project using the Real-Time Project Wizard. (The contents of such a program may be viewed in a picture that is included in the ZIP file I have attached.)
I open the LVPROJ window and proceed by connecting to my RT device. I right click on the target and choose 'Connect'.
A Deployment window will pop up and display the following text:
Deploying RT (successfully deployed target settings)
I close the window and proceed to deploy my primary VI titled 'target - multi rate - variables - fileIO.vi. I right-click on the target and choose to deploy. Again, a deployment window will pop up - this time with the following text:
Deploying My Computer
Deploying variables - network - RT.lvlib
Deploying variables - network - RT.lvlibistop \\192.168.1.2\ variables - network - RT\stop.
Deploying variables - network - RT.lvlibidata \\192.168.1.2\ variables - network - RT\data.
Deploying RT (successfully deployed target settings)
Deploying support - acquire data.vi (3.20K)
Deploying Trim Whitespace.vi Failed to download Trim Whitespace.vi
The deployment usually, but NOT always, fails on Trim Whitespace.vi. In any case, the deployment will always fail for some VI and continue to fail in the same manner until My System is rebooted. Attempting to individually deploy any of the VIs also fails the vast majority of the time and if any VI fails it will continue to do so (...until a hard reboot, in which case it may or may not fail assuredly).
Attached to this post is a ZIP containing all the files associated with this RT Project (not including the libraries of dependencies associated with LabVIEW, of course).
If you feel that more information about hardware or software in use would be useful, please ask.
Thanks,
Tom
Attachments:
LabVIEW RealTime Project.zip ‏193 KB