LAN

The LAN service is used for accessing a Local Area Network through a dial-up networking gateway. You can use this service to establish a connection to any Bluetooth device which supports the LAN Gateway (Server) role.

The LAN service provides a Bluetooth COM port prepared for Bluetooth dial-up networking. You can use the LAN COM port with Microsoft dial-up networking in order to establish a LAN connection. Please refer to the Windows online help for instructions in how to use Microsoft dial-up networking.

Note that the Bluetooth Software Suite only supports the LAN Data Terminal (client) role. This means that it is not possible to establish a Bluetooth LAN connection between two computers running the Bluetooth Software Suite (as neither of them supports server functionality).

Links can be established by dragging and dropping in the Bluetooth Neighborhood:

Drag the LAN icon from the Local Services bar to one of the following in the list view:

The remote device (or device folder), or

The remote LAN service.

In the following example, a link is being established by dragging the local LAN service to a remote LAN service:

Bluetooth Neighborhood help0075 LAN

For information on how to set up the program to dial up automatically when a LAN link is established, see “LAN Access settings”.

Note: The LAN Access Profile requires a Bluetooth COM port. By default, the profile is associated with Bluetooth COM port 7. For more information, see “Bluetooth COM ports”.

LAN