OPC server trouble seeing tags in NI Distributed System Manager

I have created my own OPC server for simulation purposes. If I create an I/O server and select my OPC server I can then "create bound variable" in which I can browse my OPC tags which are all in there. I use another program which makes use of property nodes to acquire a list of paths to these tags. The list is empty. I noticed that when I run the "NI Distributed System Manager" I can see the I/O Server but the sub tree doesn't show my tags. If I got them to show up in "NI DSM" then I could get a list of tag paths. Does anyone know why my tags would show up in the "created bound variable" window and not the "NI DSM" window? I have tried deploying the library that the I/O server is in but this doesn't work.
Thanks
Matt

Thanks for the reply Charris,
I have two OPC servers. One is the simulator and one that I connect to at a remote location which required some OPC client software (some service in windows registry which I am not familiar with). All I know is that I can browse all tags on the remote OPC server by first creating an I/O server (yes I use OPC client) and selecting "create bound variables". Before I bind any shared variables to OPC tags I can go into DSM and see all the tags that are not yet shared variables.
When I try doing this with the simulator, I first create the I/O server before I can browse all the tags in "create bound variables". But this time when I go to the DSM, they are not listed under the I/O server. This is just an observation.
My real problem is that I use this piece of code found on the NI website to get a list of tags (URLs). This code works with the remote OPC server but not with the simulator.
I don't really understand the code. All I know is that if I input the name of the library and the name of the I/O server as well as the path to the PC, it brings back a list of URLs pointing to tags. Maybe there is something in this VI you can help with.
Thanks
Matt
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