Hi!

You can reduce the time by hiding most of the properties, events and methods of the COM class, so they will not be participated i the DCOM marchalling during initialization. This reduces the time, but not much.

DCOMCNFG.EXE suposed to manage security for COM objects accessed from outside world, but I don;t know if you will be able to use it under W98, maybe W98 have another utility for that.

>Hi,
> I have a simple testing on running DCOM on remote WIN98 machine without existence of WINNT and DCOM configuration in my network using CREATEOBJECTEX() function. What I do are as the following:
>
>1. I did compile a simple class to be COM EXE called myproj.mytest
>2. I have a method called mytest.register() which will activate a timer (3 seconds)
>3. Once timer event fire, it will display a form on screen, and release the form after a while.
>
>The result I get :
>1. my class was initiated successfully in remote Win98 machine. However, it take 2 mins and 36 seconds. 2. After I createobjectex(), I try to call mytest.register() but OLE return error "server authenication unknown".
>3. I try another way to do this, by adding statement mytest.register() in class.INIT() event. Therefore, My form will be displayed once it was initiated. Yes, it work by this way.
>
>My question are:
>1. Why it take so long time for initialization?
>2. how to solve the authenication problem?
>
>Any suggestions?
>
>Thank you