Tom Eilers

You can buy ISEL 116c (4 Ampere) or ISEL 142c (8 Ampere) stepper motor controllers with these single steppermoter controllers it is possible to upload your test program and start/stop it. These controllers 4 digital in and 4 digital out. Programming is done through the serial port. WWW.ISEL.COM/en Software and Hardware Document is available: please send me an Email

Within LabView 8.xx you have the shared variable engine, what is an opc server.

Here an exaple I think that solves you probelm

A: With LabView 8.2 is a special deployment application for multiple targets. B: If you don't have LabView 8.2 than start the Max select you remote target. Right click and you will see an ftp option start this. go to the startup directory in you target and copy the startup.exe from and/to the other targets. That's very simple.

A: Yes you can change the IP address by changing type NI-RT.ini file in the root of the Fieldpoint controller and reboot the FP controller B: See NI developer zone Programatically Creating Shared Variables Labview 8.2