I am not sure I understand. You need the name of the server, in your example JUPITER? And the client calling the DCOM object is on the same machine? Or are you talking about the ProgID, rather than hard-coding the ClassID?

>That gives me my computers name. I need the name of the server computer.
>
>Thanks anyway.
>
>>>I use the following line of code to create a DCOM object.
>>>
>>>CREATEOBJECTEX( "{5A82A0A2-D1DE-11D4-BA25-400001020301}", "\\JUPITER")
>>>
>>>The calling program and the DCOM Object are on the same machine.
>>>Does anyone know of a VFP or API function to get the Server Name so it does not have be hard coded?
>>>
>>>Thanks.
>>>
>>>Dennis
>>
>>This may be the cooler way to do it < g >:
>>
>>oNetwork = CREATEOBJECT('Wscript.Network')
>>lcName = oNetwork.ComputerName