The operator PC at the end of the bottling line lost its disk on Friday. IT rebuilt it with a fresh Windows image, I installed the FactoryTalk View SE V12 client off the same media as the other three, same PC name as before.
Launch the .cli file and the client comes up, sits on the splash for a minute, then tells me it cannot connect to the HMI server, application not found. The other three clients see the application fine. It's a distributed application with the HMI server on our SE server box.
I power cycled the PC twice, reinstalled the client once and pinged the server by name and by IP, both answer.
IT reckon it's the Windows firewall on the new image. I'm wondering about a client licence. Same PC name, same media as the other three, so is a client licence even a thing on V12, or do I go back to IT about the firewall?
Same SE version and patch on the new PC as the server? And what did IT do about the firewall, off or with the FactoryTalk rules? Also, does the client PC show the server's application under Explorer, or nothing at all?
server is 12.00 with the same patch roll-up, I checked. IT turned the firewall off completely for the test, still no luck. Licence is a floating one on the server and there are two free.
Opened the Administration Console on the client PC and there's no application listed under HMI at all. Just Local.
Run the FactoryTalk Directory Configuration Wizard on the client. Local or Network?