I've not had to do this myself, but I may have to in the near future, so please keep me up-to-date on any new information.

BTW, when you tried to register the Active-X object, did you have Administrator rights?

Joe


>I have an OLE server built in VFP 5.0. I have compiled this as both "in process" (DLL) and "out of process" (EXE) binaries. The server is called by a Visual Basic 5.0, created executable. Both were created on a Windows 95 platform.
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>Job specs require the completed application to run on both Win 95 and NT 4.0 machines. The completed program runs successfully on my development machine.
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>When I try to install it on an NT 4.0 machine in our lab I get an error message "Unable to register servername." If I subsequently attempt to run the executable I receive the "Unable to create Active X object" message which verifies that my server is indeed not registered properly.
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>I located some documentation describing a possible workaround at
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> http://www.macrofirm.com/idleyisapi/vfpisapifix.html
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>This document indicates that my server will have to be registered for a specific user on the NT machine. Because of the intended deployment by client, I anticipate a problem with this.
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>Has anyone else run into problems with NT 4.0 distribution of VFP created Active X servers.
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>More to the point, does anyone have any suggestions for a solution to this that does not require preregistration for each user on a machine.
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>Any help will be appreciated.
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>Jim Hart