Server Move - Same Name, New Domain, New IP Address

[MikeX]

We have a VB application that uses a DCOM data access component on a server which receives instructions from remote clients and returns data as requested.

Setting it up was relatively simple, install the component on the server, export the 'client stub' which was then installed on the users machines.

We are now in the process of moving offices. Although the server name will not change, it will be registered in a new domain and be allocated a new IP address.

Not being a very technical person, I'm trying to find out whether our app is going to work without us needing to do anything, or whether we will need to export the client stub again a reinstall it on the users machines.

If anyone has any experience of this, I would greatly appreciate it if you could let me know what we will need to do, if anything.

Thanks in advance

 

[neillovell]

I would say it depends on "magic numbers".

If the programmer has typed in the IP address and other details then you're in trouble - they will have to be changed to the new ones.

If however function calls have been made to determine the IP address etc. then it might be ok.

I think you need someone with more experience to answer this.