Hi Rick -

I think I'm *finally* starting to get the picture. There is one big hole in my understanding tho.

We've said the following:
>>3. When you are talking about 'running the component'. Does this happen on the server or on the user's machine?
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>On the server. Clients access a Web page which responds and runs the component
>on the server.
>
>>4. If I set up an ASP that calls my DLL, how do I setup and distribute this? Is it something that each user has to install or just something I set up on the server?
>
>You don't. You only have a single server (the Web server) which uses your
>component. Everybody accessing the app just uses a browser


I thought that the difference between COM and DCOM was whether the component ran on the user's machine or on the server? This obviously isn't the case since you've said the above AND you've said I shouldn't use DCOM. What am I missing?? Simply put, how does DCOM differ from COM?

Thanks again!
~ellen