I was thinking that it would always be better to call remote stuff by name instead of a number, kind of like it's better to go after an IP name instead of an IP number.

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>If you use the classid in the function you DONT need to be registered on the client workstation. If you use the ProgID you do need to be registered locally.
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>>Why does the exe need to be registered on the workstation as well? This means I have to have a copy of my exe on every desktop, along with mt GUI exe, and have it on the server?
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>>On the VFPCOM demo from Microsoft, I don't have foxserver.exe registered on my machine and the demo works OK.