>I was recently investigating DCOM on w98 and found an article on the Knowledge Base that states that on W98, a CLIENT cannot launch a dcom server, the server must be launched on the w98 machine and only then can clients access it.
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>That made my concept unworkable, so I stopped testing there & then!

Thanks for the reply Mike, could you tell me where exactly that article is?
Actually I tried to launch my DCOM server manually, and it didn't work for me, but then again maybe not all the settings were in place.