Problem Using VB DLL's from ASP

[mojorourke]

Hi:
I seem to have this on-going problem with activeX dll's that I've created in VB 6. I've created two VB 6 ActiveX DlL's - one for creating an Excel spreadsheet, and another for creating an Excel Chart.
They both work fine across the network when called from a VB program, but the call to create an Excel object inside the DLL fails when I call the DLL from an ASP page. The crazy thing is that the chart DLL actually worked for a while - until either I or someone else changed something.
I'm new to creating server components for ASP from Visual Basic and IIS in general, so I would appreciate any help and information I can get on the issues involved here..

 

[JohnYingling]

Starting an "out of process" OLE object requires permissions. Search "out of process ole IIS" on

http://www.msdn.microsoft.com

http://WWW.VBCompare.Com

 

[Karl Blessing]

if you use an ActiveX dll from any page on your webserver, you need to make sure that folder that the *.asp file(that is making the reference to the dll) is set to be able to have a permision of "Script & Execute" , this can be set in the Internet Information Server manager, by rightclicking the folder, and chosing propertines within IIS Manager, and should be on the first tab you see, down at the bottom. Default is usally "Script Only" Karl Blessing aka kb244{fastHACK}

 

[mojorourke]

Thanks guys. The tip from John Yingling did it. I needed to use DCOMCNFG.EXE utility (found in the WINNT\System32 directory) and set access and application launch permissions. The article at MSDN is:

http://support.microsoft.com/support/kb/articles/Q156/2/23.asp

again, Thanks for the Help.