User manual

Notes:

The LANCNC does not support long Windows type file names. Use a DOS type

8.3 file format with the LANCNC. 8.3 filenames have at most eight characters,

optionally followed by a "." and a file name extension of at most three characters.

Selecting Different Media Sources (SD or Remote locations)

With the LANCNC-RMT version, directories and files may be selected from either a

local SD card or from a server located on the network. These are optional and can be

configured as to whether or not each is to be used. This allows for customized system

configuration.

One configuration could consist of a purely remote access system. To do this, the INI file

would be configured to allow only access of a single FTP server and no access to the

local SD card. A configuration such as this would provide the ability to control and limit

access to a single location of data. There would only be one copy of the original file that

be drawn from. In order to set up this configuration, the SERVER.INI file would contain:

SD=NO

NAME=JOBS

IP=192.168.2.149

PORT=21

USER=cnc

PASSWORD=cnc1234

START DIR=/MILLS/

Another configuration possibility could be to have access from one CNC to another CNC.

To achieve this functionality, the INI file would list each machine's LANCNC server

information. To copy a file from another CNC's LANCNC dataserver, the user would

select the machine's name from the directory to view other machines dataserver directory,

select the file and copy it to the local SD card. This would then allow each machine have

a copy of the same NC file to freely use. To set up this configuration, the SERVER.INI

file would contain:

NAME=Mill7

IP=192.168.2.107

PORT=21

NAME=Mill8

IP=192.168.2.108

PORT=21

NAME=Mill9

IP=192.168.2.109

PORT=21

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