[slinkelist] RE: Setting up SlinkX control on win98

[Tom Gillispie]

Max - I've gotten this to work (on Win95).  I remember the dcomcnfg message
you mentioned.  I had to switch the Win95 system to start using multiple
user profiles - but I did all that from the Win95 Control Panel (I think its
the "users" applet?).

Its been a few months, and I'm using NT (2K) more and more, so I can't give
you chapter and verse - but I know it works peer-to-peer - no NT server
needed - which seemed to be your main question.  By using dcomcnfg and the
instructions you mentioned, you are setting "no security" around the slinkx
COM component - so no NT server is needed to do the authentication.  True,
win95/98 can't do that authentication for DCOM, but it won't need to once
you follow the instructions and "turn off" security around the slinkx
component.  Hope that helps.  It is really cool when it works.  It lets you
run CDJ on your "desktop" with SlinkX running on your "server" someplace in
the A/V closet or basement.

Tom
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> Message: 5
> Date: Mon, 28 Aug 2000 15:20:57 -0700
> From: max@netscape.com (Mike Macgirvin)
> To: slinkelist@nirvis.com
> Subject: [slinkelist] Setting up SlinkX control on win98
> 
> 
> I've been following the instructions to set up slinkX as a shared DCOM
> control on win98. When I try to enable it however, the first warning
> which comes up (from dcomcnfg) says I need to be using "user" based
> sharing control rather than "share" based (which I've been using
> previously). I've tried to do this, but am unable to setup any user
> accounts to share (user database unavailable, try again later). I'm
> trying to use the user manager in the w98 machine to set up the
> accounts, and point to the win98 machine as the user manager.
> 
> It seems likely that I need an NT domain controller on the 
> local net to
> manage the accounts, as win98 probably doesn't have the necessary OS
> hooks to provide authentication services beyond allowing you 
> to let two
> or more people share the box with different profiles. 
> 
> Can somebody either confirm this or point me to how to configure
> user-based sharing (and get DCOM working) on win98 without 
> requiring an
> NT server?
> 
> 
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