>I'm trying to configure a 3-tier VFP6 application that will run on a server to use COM objects (out of process EXEs) that can be instantiated from client machines. The EXEs have been installed on the server, and the remote autoconnect manager (racmgr32.exe) executed with the (1) allow creates by key option specified and (2) the allow remote creation box checked.
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>When I try to instantiate the COM objects from a remote machine (after configuring) I get the error message "OLE error 0x80070005...access is denied". Does anybody know what the problem is/am I missing a setting in racmgr32?
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>Thanks in advance.
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>Sara

This sounds like an NT security problem. You can run DCOMCNFG.EXE to see and set default and specific COM server security properties. The account the external user comes in under probably does not have Launch and/or Access rights. You can also look up the MS KB articles Q158508 and Q169321 which address some of these issues. I believe they also give some links to other articles.

Bill