Word Automation - Authentication 'Between the lines'

[GriffMG]

I'm still searching for a solution to my Word automation going very slowly on some machines - all with XP SP2 installed - and I *think* I've worked out the cause.

For each instruction I'm issuing from VFP via my oWord object, the workstation is almost certainly checking the users credentials against the domain. I don't get a problem in my office, because I don't connect to a domain...

Does anyone know how to turn this off?



Regards

Griff
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[DSummZZZ]

We had an issue similar to that (Excel grief), but I'm not sure what the 'cure' was. My net admin isn't here today so I can't ask him.
But maybe this forum could help:
Microsoft: Windows 2003 Server Forum
forum931

-Dave Summers-

Even more Fox stuff at:

http://www.davesummers.net/foxprolinks.htm

 

[Mike Lewis]

Martin,

This is something that could affect us all. I hope someone can come up with the fix.

Mike


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Mike Lewis (Edinburgh, Scotland)

My Visual FoxPro site: www.ml-consult.co.uk

 

[GriffMG]

I *think* I have a fix - I'll get someone to test it on Friday.

It's possibly to do with the way RPC calls are handled - there are two options; one to use the NT service to authenticate the other to use local credentials. I'm *hoping* that by changing it to local credentials - that the whole thing will speed up.

I have a machine to try it on (assuming my client's patience isn't stretched too far) so I should be able to find out.

B-)

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Griff
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[GriffMG]

Update, I've had a chance to compare similar machines with SP2 and SP1 on them and it seems that it is an authentication thing, as suspected, but the big question is WHERE!

I got an IT guy on site to go through all the services and change their settings to local - because they were all different on the SP2 machine - but it made no difference.

Meantime the client needs the machine running, so the user is getting an XP SP1 to work with... one step forward, one step back.

B-)

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Griff
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