Thomas, can you just give an example of the instruction i.e. would this be it?

  TOBJ_XLS = CREATEOBJECT( "Excel.Application", SYS(0) )

or do I need to extract the machine id or the user id from sys(0) or just pass the whole string?


>I'd try with sys(0) on Remote first, as there a ping with computername should succeed -
>permissions for such things in general being able to screw up scenarios...
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>>Hi All,
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>>We have an application running on a server to which we allow users remote access via terminal services / remote desktop. Our application has a facility where it automate Excel to create and populate a spreadsheet with data. This is done via
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>>  TOBJ_XLS = CREATEOBJECT( "Excel.Application" )
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>>However, under terminal services / remote desktop this would instantiate Excel on the server and we obviously don't want that. We want the Excel to be instantiated on the client machine. Under VFP help I find this command:
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>>  CREATEOBJECTEX(cCLSID | cPROGID, cComputerName [, cIID])
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>>and, if I understand this correctly, it appears that this command can be used to instantiate an object reference to Excel on the user's machine. Is that right? If so, how do I determine the value of the parameters required? Does SYS(0) help me? Any advice very welcome.
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>>TIA