>>>David,
>>Hi George
>>It works fine if password if valid, but get an OLE error, "Access is denied" on this line
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>>

loName.InitEx(3, "", lcUser, "", tcPassword)

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>>if either the password or user name (and possibly the domain/forest) is incorrect.
>>
>>I've fixed a little bug in the calling example, see below.
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>>So you're VERY close here.
>
>Whoops! Well, it was originally written to be a web service.< s > My bad. Note that there are two calls to validate the password. It's been found that the first sometimes suceeds with an invalid password. Probably needs two TRY...CATCH blocks.
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>You want me to make this modification? I'm sure, however, that you could easily implement it.

I was thinking another try/catch :-) too. Leave it to me George.
Regards