FRC Driver Station on another machine

[arthurlockman]

Hey Everyone,

I have a question for the community. I've seen this done at a number of competitions, so I know it is possible. My question is, how do I go about getting the Driver station and Dashboard up and running on a machine other than the classmate?

Now, I have the dashboard installed on my Win7 machine, and it runs just fine on our local network. I can control the robot and everything just fine. But, when I go and hook it up to the FMS, the FMS will not connect to the driver station instance on my laptop.

What do I have to do to make it so it can connect? I'm running Win7 in Parallels Desktop on my mac, with bridged internet to the ethernet port. Technically it should work fine, but the FMS just won't connect. Any ideas?

Thanks in advance!
-Arthur Lockman