Thanks Rick,
So a fully qualified UNC expressed by the DCOM object will implicitly use server side resources. Is this true even if I don't have browse services on the remote machine? (its on a differnt network segment).

Some Other Questions:

What overhead in bandwidth do I incure by using DCOM instead of a simple datagram architechture?

DCOM is connection based, it seems that I could handle more concurrent clients with a datagram / connectionless approach?

What is your opinion

Jon

>>Hi, I am writing a DCOM object in VFP 5.0 I know I can use GETMODULEFILE api call to determine the location of the DCOM object on the server but how do I access File and print services on the server?
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>UNC notation. \\ServerName\Sharename\Path... Works for printers too.
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>Make sure you set the security properly for the server. Remember
>the server doesn't live local. Everything it does happens on the
>remote, so a local printer to the component is on the server.
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>+++ Rick ---