Trouble with NI-DAQ OPC Server

Hi everyone !!!
I´m currently facing a problem which I can´t solve ! I´ll describe it so that you people can help me figure out a solution!
What I want to do is to make use of NI-DAQ OPC Server so that my tasks previously configured in NI-MAX can be accessed by a OPC Client. To test the connection I´m using QuickOPCClient from Kepware. The problems are the following :
1 - Although the devices and their tasks can be successfully accessed and tested inside NI-MAX, whenever I try to establish a connection to DaqOpc through NI Server Explorer an error occur and so I can´t communicate with the server.
2- Since it´s a very strange kind of error - I can, for instance access all the other OPC servers currently installed on my machine  using  both QuickOPCClient and NI Server Explorer - I decided to try desperate measurements !  I uninstalled the DAQ drivers - both traditional and mx - currently installed on my machine and installed them again ... to no avail ! The strange error persists !
Can anyone help me with this? As is always the case, any help will certainly be deeply appreciated!
Giovani

Hi Giovani,
When you try to connect to the server do you get any error messages?
Have you tried running through the NI-DAQ OPC Server Troubleshooting Wizard?  If it doesn't solve the issue, it may give you a better idea what the origin of the problem is.
Let me know if anything turns up in your troubleshooting!
Regards,
Micaela N
National Instruments

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