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> We have some equipment in our lab. It needs a computer to control it.
> Unfortunately, the control software requires somebody to be logged in. As
> soon as you log out, it quits the control program, halting the machine.
Can't you just lock the machine instead of logging off?
> Except that the control software stubbornly, repeatedly *refuses* to
> believe me that the USB serial port actually exists. Every other piece of
> software I've tried can access it without issue. But not the one piece of
> software that we *need* to access it. No sir. Not interested. It can "see"
> the port, but it refuses to *select* that port. And nothing I've done so
> far seems to convince it to work.
OOC what COM port number is assigned to the USB COM port? If it's higher
than 4 then you might try changing it to 4 or below (you can usually do it
from device manager under the properties of the USB-COM adapter). Some
older programs don't like working with things like COM7 which those USB
converters typically come up as.
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