[slinkelist] DCOM in a Peer to Peer Network

[Erik Turner]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Ian Cole" <iancole@earthlink.net>
To: "Justin Foster" <jfost@pacbell.net>; <slinkelist@nirvis.com>
Sent: Sunday, December 17, 2000 2:22 PM
Subject: Re: [slinkelist] DCOM in a Peer to Peer Network


You can't run multiple copies of CDJ at one time - if you intend to only run
one at a time, then no problem, dcom will work, even though it is a royal
pain to setup, and is slow to connect at startup.

>> I will attest to this statement "dcom will work, even though it is a royal
>> pain to setup, and is slow to connect at startup".  I am forced to use
>> two symetric Win 98 DCOM servers (long explanation) at work and 
>> it takes about 90 seconds to connect the first time.  Sometimes, the 
>> COM server will get confused and there will be two of them even 
>> though it is never supposed to happen (usually requires a reboot to 
>> fix this one).  Setup requires quite a bit of time tweaking the registry,
>> changing network options, etc.