MTS/DCOM

[harjeen]

I'm using MTS in order to run some of my application code in the server runtime environment. In order to distribute this remote package to my clients, I'm using the application executable utility that comes with MTS. However, I noticed that the registry entries that this utility creates reference the server by its computer name, and not by an IP address. Is this sufficient identification for a client that may be half-way around the world? I don't see how that person's machine would be able to resolve a computer name, when the server is on a completely different network.

Anyone have some info on this issue?

Thanks in advance,

Nahid Harjee

[JHausmann]

That's a function of the DNS server. If you run into problems you could provide an lmhost file _or_ ask the user's ISP to add entries to it's DNS server. Look at it another way, every time you type an URL into a browser, something is converting that to an address, an address that may or may not exist on your user's network...