>> What user identity is actually running the COM component? That's the user that needs access to the second server.
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>Yeah that's the question. How can I determine that? And would I be able to set up a mapped drive for that user identity or does the user identity only deal with permissions?

SYS(0) will return the identity of the account that's running your COM component. Just add method to your server that returns this value. I tend to add a single status method to all COM servers that returns information like startup path, PATH, user id etc. so that i can see this information at a glance.

It's vital to understand this info before you can even begin to properly configure security <g>...

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