[slinkelist] Question about DCOM

[Dave Kolb]

Windows 98 comes with DCOM.

Go to start/run and do DCOMCNFG and it may ask you to configure for user
level security via the network icon. I think this just means you have to
logon as a specific user on the other machines. You should not need an NT
domain controller.

Once it comes up, the Slink-e software should be in the application list and
if so you can configure it for other machines to access by userid that logs
onto those machines. Just don't use domain names and I would think this
should work. I do not have Slink-e not multiple machines installed yet
though I am planning to do both after I get my ducks lined up ...

Note the COM server will have to be prestarted on the server machines as
DCOM on 98 will not automagically instantiate the server side software as it
will on an NT machine. That's OK as you can just put it in the startup menu.

Dave


-----Original Message-----
From: Simon Mason <simon@themasons.net>
To: slinkelist@nirvis.com <slinkelist@nirvis.com>
Date: Sunday, October 24, 1999 2:36 PM
Subject: [slinkelist] Question about DCOM


>I am trying to get another computer on my network to talk to the computer
>with the slinke attached using the DCOM utility.  All of the machines on my
>home network are communicating via TCP/IP, but none are running Windows NT.
>All are running Windows 98 and 95.  Much of the DCOM configuration appears
>to rely on user level access which can only be configured when you have an
>NT server running and everyone logs into it.  Is there a way to get this
>working without NT or do I have to breakdown and install it on one of my
>machines?
>
>
>Simon D. S. Mason
>simon@themasons.net
>
>