Courseplanner Options Network

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With Courseplanner you can run Courseplanner on one machine while Flight Simulator is running on another machine.

Contents 1 Configuration 2 Configure Courseplanner 2.1 Requirements 2.2 Terms used 2.2.1 Client and Server 2.2.2 Port Number and Host name 2.2.3 Firewall 3 References 4 See Also

Configuration

Configure Courseplanner

Main article: Courseplanner Network Configuration.

Use the dialog to set the courseplanner network values.

• The machine IP address/Name is the name of the other machine, the one with Flight simulator. Remember that you can enter either the IP address or the other machine name.
• The port number must be the same for both machines.

• When you press the 'Ping' Button you should get a message similar to 'Successfully managed to connect to <xx.xx.xx.xx>
• Press the 'retry' button to close the current connection and try a new connection, (needed when you make any kind of changed on the network)

Requirements

• The other machine name or IP address. You will need it to connect between the two.
• Run the setup on both machines with the information ready.

Terms used

Client and Server

One machine is known as the Client^[1] machine while the other is the Server^[2]. While it does not really matter who does what, we will normally refer to Courseplanner as the Client and Flight Simulator as the Server.

Port Number and Host name

To talk to each other Courseplanner and Flight Simulator uses 2 important piece of information, a port number ^[3] and a host name^[4].

The Host name and port number is used by the Client^[1] to connect to the Server^[2] The port number is also used by the Server to listen to one or more client connections.

Firewall

Most modern computers limit the network access using a firewall^[5]. Simply put, a firewall is designed to prevent unauthorized software access to a networked computer system, (it could be the internet or your other computer.

So when Courseplanner tries to connect to your networked machine you will most likely be challenged by your firewall to ask you if you want to allow it to connect to the network.

Windows default firewall:

Main article: Courseplanner Firewall Setup for Vista.

Microsoft Vista firewall.^[6]

Main article: Courseplanner Firewall Setup for WinXP.

Microsoft WinXP firewall.^[7]

Other firewalls

There many other types of firewall, for more help on configuring commercially-available firewalls, please see your firewall manufacturer's site directly.

References

1. ↑ ^{1.0 1.1} Client
2. ↑ ^{2.0 2.1} Communications server
3. ↑ Computer Port
4. ↑ Host name
5. ↑ Firewall
6. ↑ ^{6.0 6.1} Windows Vista Firewall
7. ↑ Windows XP Firewall

See Also

• Courseplanner Options
• Courseplanner Options FS Version