>One of my low priority projects is an sequrity server. i can't get the time to complete it on my own, maybe this could be a great sample project
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>The properties are as follows:
>- It must be implemented with COM or either DCOM
>- A client application can ask the server if the clientuser has access to an object
>- The server applic monitors all current users in all applications connected to it.
>- The server administrates all trapable errors that occured in the client applications
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Actually, a lot of this is already done. Take a look at West Wind's web site. Rick has a new white-paper up on using XML. One of the examples shows how to create an instance of an object on the server and pass the results back (and any errors that might occur).