ASP CreateObject fails on EXE COM Object

[BeanDog]

I have created a COM object in an EXE COM project. I set
up IIS on my XP Pro system. I can create the object
easily in VB with CreateObject("...&quot, but when I try to
do Server.CreateObject("...&quot in a localhosted ASP page,
the site hangs and no information is sent down. It spawns
the .EXE (I can see it in Task Manager) but seems to hang
when creating the object. Again, the object works fine
from VB.

Any ideas?



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[Kees]

Howdy,

I think there are some problems with rights here:
An ASP page creates the object with the rights of the IUSR_<Servername> user. The VB project creates the object with the userrights of the currently logged in user.
If you're reading from the registry, the IUSR_<Servername> user needs to have these rights (a guest cannot read the registry of p.e. HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE)

So: read trough your code in the COM object and check for needed rights...

Greetz,
Kees

P.S. Watch share rights!!: I had problems accessing a Novell share with (amongst others) a database: it wasn't safe to give user IUSR_<servername> read rights on this particular Novell share, so the object couldn't access this database directly; I had to instantiate a MTS object which runs as a user that has the appropriate rights.