>>>My client wants to use ASP pages to instantiate our VFP object, which returns data to be sent to the browser. Our VFP object will run as an out-of-process DLL, or possibly an EXE. Everything works fine in a single machine environment.
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>>>In the client's environment the data will be on another machine -- a Novell server -- on his network. Will mapped drives be available? And if not, how do I make them available? Should I call "RevertToSelf"? (As suggested by Rick Strahl in his book?) Should my DLL do something the first time it is called to create these mappings?
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>>You can use mapped drives or network paths... \\networkserver\share\
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>>Your dll will have the same network security privelages as the machine it is installed on?
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>Was that last item a question? It IIS starts as a service, and no one is logged on the server machine, will it have the same access as the system administrator?

No, it will have the access of the IUSR_MachineName account which by default is basically nothing (Guest). You have to grant access to that account or use MTS to package the DLL and setup the account that it uses to instantiate the object or if an EXE, use DCOMCNFG to configure the security for the object.