>>>>>Hi Ed,
>>>>> Ok, good, this clears something up for me--I now understand that this problem occurs only on Win 9x, not WinNT. In fact, my client who had an error is running Win95--I mistakenly thought it was WinNT.
>>>>> Can DCOM98 be executed against Win95? If so, I imagine that one should download DCOM98 rather than DCOM95 since DCOM98 can be used in all cases.
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>>>>DCOM98 can be run against either Win95 or Win98, however, AFAIK, it can't be downloaded, and Microsoft has never clarified whether the file can be redistributed with an application. The question has been posed twice on UT to Robert green, and he has never answered the question, so I'm assuming for the moment that it is not redistributable. It should not be needed with a standard Win98 install, since IE4 installs with Win98, and IE4 contains the necessary DCOM components.
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>>>Hi Ed,
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>>>It is re-distributable. See: http://www.microsoft.com/com/dcom/dcom1_2/eula.asp
>>>
>>>Sorry guys, I'm too tired to goof around with the HTML codes.
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>>Sorry, George, but as I read it, that applies to DCOM95.EXE, not to the DCOM98.EXE on the Visual Studio CD.
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>You'll have to excuse me, Ed. The weekend was about an hour too short.< g >
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>Doesn't Win98 include DCOM98? Or am I thinking of something else? If it does, then there's no point in whether or not it's re-distributable. You just need to download DCOM95 from the MS site and you're good to go.

Win98 installs the DCOM components unless you do a custom install and take none of the IE4 components in; I suppose that the people who were trying to show how IE wasn't fully integrated drove MS to include it in the VS distribution. The DCOM98 executable is different than the DCOM95 executable, in that the DCOM95 executable won't run under 98, while DCOM98 runs under both Win95 and Win98.

But for all intents and purposes, having DCOM95 should make it OK, unless you're expecting to deal with hosed copies of Win98 (conceivable at least) or if MS is forced to pull the browser from some updated version at some point. You still need to install SP3 or SP4 to add DCOM to NT, and DCOM95 or DCOM 98 fixes Win95 versions...