>I need some assistance with an Internet archetecture problem. A client wishes to provide realtime status reports to his customers via his website. The web server is a professionally-hosted, shared device at a remote location. His data is in Fox 2.x tables on a Novell server behind a firewall. One workstation running NT 4 server has been located outside the firewall and assigned an IP address. This machine has read-only access to the Novell server. Is it possible to have a COM server on this workstation that can respond to http requests WITHOUT putting IIS on the workstation? If so, what do I need to know/do to make this work?


Yes, it is possible. See my articles on COM+ in FoxTalk, beginning with the May issue. The first article is online at http://www.pinnaclepublishing.com/FT/FTMag.nsf/0/F3465355DA9A62C985256A480051ECE8. The article discusses COM+ in WIN2K, but the installation of the COM Component on MTS under WINNT is similar.