Newbie to dcom

[sweetleaf]

Hello,

If I have asp's sitting on a web server that i want to make calls to com objects sitting on another server (with or without MTS), do i need to install special software on either or both of the servers? Can anyone give me a brief run down or checklist of what i need to do. Everything I've downloaded through msdn or elsewhere is so confusing and often conflicts..

thanks much

 

[sauTheGr8]

if u are accessing the object in VB u can do it by simply calling
createobject("classname",servername);
this will create a object remotely!
and that i suppose will solve ur prob!

sauthegr8

 

[jmarler]

There is one catch to this . . . ASP be default can not create an components out of process (that means only DLLs in the same machine as the IIS server and in the IIS process space). Also, that means that by default ASP can not access MTS components since MTS components run in a different process space (MTX.exe).
Luckily, there is a way around this little issue! Here is the direct quote from MSDN . . .


"By default, IIS 3.0 disables calling out-of-process components. To enable calling out-of-process components, modify the following registry entry


HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\W3SVC\ASP\Parameters


by setting the AllowOutOfProcCmpnts key to 1."



Of course this may have changes with IIS 4.0 and/or IIS 5.0, but I thought that it was worth mentioning.


- Jeff Marler B-)