DCOM in XPE sp2

[Guest]

I've been trying to get DCOM working in sp2 but without success. When I try
to instantiate my object I get "RPC server not available". The firewall is
not included in the image and I've set the key RestrictRemoteClients to 0.
Which components do I need to include in my image and what settings do I need
to apply? Security is of no interest.

 

[Lewis]

Hi j_boo,

I only got DCOM working in XPe _with_ firewall included, but disabled.
Also I had to include the admin support tools (which blew up my image
for a couple of 10 MByte).
I couldn't find out, which components and settings are really needed to
get DCOM running without these components.
But with the support tools you can easily configure DCOM...

Unfortunately, there is very few information about DCOM in XPe from
Microsoft.

Regards

Lewis

 

[Guest]

Thank's a lot Lewis! It works fine now!

I did some testing and it seems that the only component required to get it
working is "Internet Protocol Network Adress Translation". But... you need to
disable the "Windows firewall/Internet Connection sharing" service which
comes with this component. Then, to speed up the boot time you probably want
to set start type of the IP Nat driver to 0x2. And the Administritive tools
are required for setting the security.

But in the end I included the entire firewall as suggested and just disabled
it. You never know what else could be missing otherwise....

/ j_boo