Starting a remote connection
With the aid of the remote display control program (CERHOST), a remote connection can be established and an industrial PC with a CE operating system can be remotely controlled from a host PC.
Prerequisites:
- Remote display is active. See: Enabling a remote display.
- Host name of the embedded PC.
- Remote display control (CERHOST). Download from: https://www.beckhoff.com/en-en/support/download-finder/search-result/?download_group=769277145
Start the remote connection as follows:
- 1. Unpack the ZIP file on the host PC and run cerhost.exe.
- 2. Click on File in the menu bar and then on Connect.
- 3. Enter the host name of the embedded PC in the Hostname field.
- The remote connection is started and the Windows Embedded CE 7 start screen appears.
