I've got the datacentric portion of my application as an ActiveX EXE that I have installed and registered on a server in our network.

I have installed the 'client' portion of the application on two client machines: one physically on the network and the other connected via PPTP VPN (W2K connecting to NT4).

One the local machine (physically connected to the network) the client application runs fine. It is able to find the server and interacts with it via DCOM the way it's supposed to.

The 'remote' client, however, runs into problems. When the client tries to access the server it kicks off the application (I've verified this portion). However, it just kind of sits there and eventually I get a message that says 'Automation Error: the object exporter specified was not found'.

According to MSDN I'm supposed to make sure my client configuration references the server properly (ie. <server.domain>) which it does.

Any ideas!!! I'm stumped.