What are the chances of getting this setup working?

Blazini36- I had never tried the Openpnp to Linuxcnc thing my self and it is great you were able to make the headway you did.
                I am more on the mechanical spectrum of things . Programing doesn't come easy to me so everything is usually a
                fight to get anywhere and sometimes I succeed. That said I wish you the best of luck which ever route you go.

Well the OpenPnP to LinuxCNC thing wasn't really possible as it is. linuxcncrsh has always been there but it's like unexplored territory. iforce2d did alot more work than I would have thought necessary to customize a linuxcncrsh-like server to add stuff that is typically found in 3d printers since that's the way OpenPnP is setup.

I try to stay away from programming myself. Takes me a long time to get anywhere since I really don't know what I'm doing otherwise something like a unified start script would probably be simple.

I know you were doing something with a PnP, how's that going?

  well unfortunately I haven't had the time to mess with it. The machine is operational but I have had to
divert all my time to other things at work . I will get back to it when work eases up.