>Hello Everybody.
>
>I have a problem which is only effecting a handful of machines 90% of machines I have my application on work okay. I cant readily identify why these machines are causing a problem. Ie checked spec, Windows OS ver etc.
>
>I am simply using ole to bring up word and open an rtf document.
>
>But get the following problem.
>
>I first get an error message :-
>
>
>"OLE error code 0x80010108. The object invoked has
>disconnected from its clients."
>
>ignore this message and you get
>
>"OLE error code 0x800706ba. The RPC Server
>is unavailable."
>
>Can anyone shed any light on this? Its causing a real headache!!!!
>
>Cheers
>Chris

Chris,
One of the reasons might be the use of GetObject() instead of CreateObject(). GetObject() gets the reference but real owner shutdowns.
Cetin