>>>How can I send and recieve data to a COM port over a network(with VFP,ASP,...)?
>>Can you provide more details?
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>For example a Network of 1 server and 2 clients(no appl. are running on these clients).
>How can a the server read the Com-port from a client.
>Are there no tools that do things like this 'Read_COMport(127.0.0.2,PORT1)'?


only see mention of network sharing of drives & printers, not com ports.
consider running an app on the client that does com port read.
then, there are a myriad ways to get that data to the server:
push data file to server, let server read from shared file, Net DDE, etc.