I have 4 experts all telling me different things. :-)

Any of you guys have the email of someone on the Foxteam that can and would answer this for me?

>I think remote automation is a subset of DCOM. But I could be wrong.
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>>>Check out Chapter 16 of the VFP Programmer's Guide. The last section "Using Remote Automation" describes how to set up remote automation. It appears to be a similar beast to DCOM (a precursor perhaps), but different tools are used to install, configure and run it.
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>>Remote Automation is pretty much DCOM before they gave it a fancy name.