did you get an earlier reply ? it disappeared from my screen !

I'll try dcomcnfg to see if the user is an issue

Strangely, it seems that if I map to my LOCAL machine, it resolves the names, but if I map to another system , it fails! ( NET USE )

All IP addresses are fine, the DCOM object handles non pathed requests fine. But the whole idea is to let it do pricing and that requires it to access other systems!

HOSTS and LMHOSTS files are up to date too!

aargghh!

thx

mike