Fanuc on a domain

[tuxarut]

Can anyone help me add our Fanuc controller to the domain. The machine is a Tanaka Laser and right now we are sending our nc programs over FTP. The problem is, The FTP server looses connection to the machine and in order for it to work you need to restart the FTP server every time. We've added fanuc controllers on other machines to the domain before but are having troubles on the Tanaka. Any help would be appreciated.

[fanucman]

Originally Posted by tuxarut Can anyone help me add our Fanuc controller to the domain. The machine is a Tanaka Laser and right now we are sending our nc programs over FTP. The problem is, The FTP server looses connection to the machine and in order for it to work you need to restart the FTP server every time. We've added fanuc controllers on other machines to the domain before but are having troubles on the Tanaka. Any help would be appreciated.

what control... iv seen this problem before.. are u using get and put statements or no?

if no then you have the old type of Ethernet board.... and it will do that unless you use GET AND PUT

[dcoupar]

I've seen this before. If you have a computer on the network that's not real busy, have it ping the Fanuc constantly and it won't disconnect.

[tuxarut]

I have never heard of GET and PUT, can you explain this to me? I will try having a computer periodically ping the controller to see if that solves our problem.

The control is a Series 16i-LB,