>Since DCOM servers have to be exes anyway (if their not in a COM+ app), this >doesn't really apply.

Really? Oh, damn, that means my last message to Bruce was totally screwed up. I'd almost swear that DCOM servers can be DLLs that run within the DLLHOST.EXE process on the remote machine. In fact, I believe chapter 16 of the Programmer's Guide, to which I referred Bruce, illustrated how a DCOM DLL server runs in the process space of a proxy stub. I'll have to investigate tomorrow.