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David Timms wrote:

> I am developing an app that will schedule the remote playing back of
> Powerpoint presentations on various playback machines (ie. at once).

> The schedule app runs on w95 currently, the playback machine is nt4
> workstation. With a bit of help from Web examples, I have been able to
> connect to "Powerpoint.Application" and open and run the presentation,
> with some 5sec polling to detect when the presentation ends. This works
> fine on the local PP.

> I have used dcomcnfg locally to set the com object for Powerpoint to
> operate a remote machine, and messed with settings on the remote PP
> machine to make it accept, run and play back presentations.

> What I now need to do is have my application be able to connect to
> different PP PC's. I can imagine that the dcomcnfg is just stored in the
> registry and I could change the remote server name to access the next PC
> I need to run a presentation on. Would this work ?

> Preferably though, I want to be able to have simultaneous connections to
> all PP PC's. I found an example by Charlie Calvert using D2/D3, but have
> been unable to successfully run it to connect to a remote machine. The
> code uses GetRemoteOleObject, which Charlie defines himself.

> I assume that it is not a problem to do what I am asking, although I
> imagine that it is more common for clients to specific machines.

> Where to next for solutions ?

> David Timms
> Rutledge Engineering