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Hi all. Newbie to this so please be gentle

I've written an application in VB6 which uses the Mappoint ActiveX control to display vehicle locations. The application works fine on a PC, the problem I'm having is with terminal services.

Mappoint itself works fine on a TS client, but when I try to bring up the screen with the map in my application I get an error of

Run-time error '-2147024893 (800700003)':
Mappoint failed to load. The cause of this failure is unknown.

An event is also created in the system event log:

Unable to start a DCOM server :{15A0124-24D2-4FDB-8155-5F65FCE-7017F}. The error "The system cannot find the file specified " happened while starting this command: C:\Program Files\Microsoft mappoint Europe\Mappoint.exe -embedding

I can run the application fine from the console, this problem happens when I try to run it over terminal services, even when I use the administrator account. I'm pretty sure it's not a permissions problem, I've checked all that.

What am I missing??

I have the same problem, 5 seats and cannot get iot to allow anyone but the original installer (admin)

Has anyone resolved this?

Thanks..

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GpoeSCC

I had problems with remote desktop. Problems were related to the screen resolution. Changing screen resolution problems were solved.
Yes the mine was a different thing, I created an application that creates a map of 686x566pixel and with a screen resolution (setted as parameter of Remote Desktop) of 800x600 this doesn't work. I setted it 1024x768 and it worked fine.

Hi,

Not mappoint related but terminal server / remote desktop are things full of strange bugs. I dont support them in commercial applications anymore because they all have unpredictible bugs. I suggest to move your customars to the "normal" remote programs if this is really nececary.

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Hi,

Not mappoint related but terminal server / remote desktop are things full of strange bugs. I dont support them in commercial applications anymore because they all have unpredictible bugs. I suggest to move your customars to the "normal" remote programs if this is really nececary.

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rgds, Wilfried Mestdagh
www.mestdagh.biz
MapPoint coding demo
Order MapPoint 2009 with Routing and User Tools Spreadsheet

I've been using MP under Ts with no issues at all, I made sure I installed Mp on the Server locatly and then ran it from there first.. after that all users had no problems at all.