No I don't have a clear idea. Under w2k and xp I can access and get serial numbers using either that serial.bin or FileScriptingObject, winAPI with VFP but not on w9x machines.
Cetin

>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.
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>Any idea what might be happening?
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>>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
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>>>Hi Cetin
>>>
>>>How was your DevCon? Looks like everybody is happy with VFP8.
>>>
>>>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:
>>>
>>>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:
>>>
>>>E:
>>>CD\app
>>>FOXR readsrno.prg (which in turn call serial.bin)
>>>
>>>here serial.bin returns a blank instead of 4 characters.
>>>
>>>But if I shift to the server and...
>>>C:
>>>CD\app
>>>FOXR readsrno.prg
>>>
>>>here serial.bin returns the right value.
>>>
>>>On the same machine but between drive partitions like C: and D: on the same machine is working well.
>>>
>>>Please help.