One item I found once was someone had turned on simple file sharing. This messes w/dcom for some reason. Ronald G. Schafer Distributed Controls System Administrator White Birch Paper Company Bear Island L.L.C. Division 10026 Old Ridge Road Ashland VA, 23005 Phone 804-227-4034 Fax 804-227-4052 Email: rschafer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx -----Original Message----- From: foxboro-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:foxboro-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Fitzgerrell, Kevin Sent: Monday, December 29, 2008 2:00 AM To: foxboro@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: [foxboro] AIM* OPC server problem Hi all, This weekend one of our AIM* OPC servers quit working. When we try to view it with Matrikon's OPC Explorer we get a COM error message: ----------------------------------------- Header: An error was encountered while using COM services. The error may indicate incorrect configuration. If the problem persists, contact your system administrator. Detail box: COM/OPC error 0x80080005 on CoCreateInstance() Error string: Server execution failed Additional: Could not connect to server 'AIM.OPC' ----------------------------------------- Any thoughts? Normally when we have OPC server problems we reboot the OPC box and if that doesn't fix it reboot the AWs and the OPC box. That's not fixing things this time. Regards, Kevin FitzGerrell _______________________________________________________________________ This mailing list is neither sponsored nor endorsed by Invensys Process Systems (formerly The Foxboro Company). Use the info you obtain here at your own risks. Read http://www.thecassandraproject.org/disclaimer.html foxboro mailing list: //www.freelists.org/list/foxboro to subscribe: mailto:foxboro-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx?subject=join to unsubscribe: mailto:foxboro-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx?subject=leave _______________________________________________________________________ This mailing list is neither sponsored nor endorsed by Invensys Process Systems (formerly The Foxboro Company). Use the info you obtain here at your own risks. Read http://www.thecassandraproject.org/disclaimer.html foxboro mailing list: //www.freelists.org/list/foxboro to subscribe: mailto:foxboro-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx?subject=join to unsubscribe: mailto:foxboro-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx?subject=leave