I'm not a DCOM expert but in working on a DCOM problem with a Microsoft
engineer, I found that DNS and name resolution is important to DCOM. Also,
my understanding was that DCOM only used DNS to resolve the names and
address. You could try adding an entry in your hosts file on the remote
machine that points to the correct IP address and see if that makes things
work.

Nick.

-----Original Message-----
From: Craig Bateman [mailto:cbatemanLEASELINK.COM]
Sent: Wednesday, February 06, 2002 12:20 PM
To: DCOMDISCUSS.MICROSOFT.COM
Subject: DCOM resolving machine names through WINS vs DNS

I have a DCOM component that fails to operate in one of our satelite offices
if I use a machine name when I create it remotely. If I use the actual IP
address of the machine it connects fine. Network Admin tells me it's
because "your COM component needs to use DNS instead of WINS to resolve the
machine name". I'm not a network guru, but as far as I know, there's no way
for me to change this. Is this my responsibility or is DCOM's name
resolution dependent on how the machine is setup?

Thanks

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