>>Nick,
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>>Pure SWAG here. Check HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\OLE. There should be two keys: EnableDCOM and EnableRemoteConnect. Both should have the value "Y". I'm wondering about the second one.
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>George, I don't know because I have never tried, but are these settings available on a Win98 machine? Are these settings in lieue of the necessary config that you have to do on NT/2K machines with DCOMCNFG?
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>To be honest, I was not aware that you could do DCOM with a 9X server.

Both settings are on a Win9x machine. As a coincidence, I happened to be working on some install problems I've been having. I was in the process of checking the above key (on Win98SE) about the same time Nick posted the question. I happened to note the two keys mentioned above (in my case both were set to "Y"). I then swapped out my drive for the Win95B drive and ran the test install. One of the things has to do is install DCOM95. Initially, it wasn't on the machine and the DCOM install went fine. When I checked the registry, again both keys were present on 95B. The only difference being the EnableRemoteConnect key was set to "N".

I can't answer about Win NT/2K because I don't have access to one of those boxes.