Thanks Cetin for a very fast reply. In the mean time I was doing research. I tried from a W2K machince as a node onto 2 other W98 machines and it is working well. W98 machine to w98 machine fails.

Any idea what might be happening?

>Thanks Devcon was a thriller :) VFP8 maybe is the best version so far.
>I think I warned you serial reading routines wouldn't work on networked drives. I don't know if there is a way to get remote drive serial numbers using DOS interrupts.
>Cetin
>
>>Hi Cetin
>>
>>How was your DevCon? Looks like everybody is happy with VFP8.
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>>Sorry to be troubling you again but I seem to have run into a problem with serial.bin I will be glad if you can help me with it. The problem goes:
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>>I have tried this on a standalone manner and it is very well. But on a LAN environment where I have mapped the server C drive as say for eg. E: the following failed from the node:
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>>E:
>>CD\app
>>FOXR readsrno.prg (which in turn call serial.bin)
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>>here serial.bin returns a blank instead of 4 characters.
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>>But if I shift to the server and...
>>C:
>>CD\app
>>FOXR readsrno.prg
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>>here serial.bin returns the right value.
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>>On the same machine but between drive partitions like C: and D: on the same machine is working well.
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>>Please help.