Dear Python/DCOM experts,
I just tried to do a remote dispatch of Google Earth in DCOM, but it didn't
work:
<code>
import pythoncom, win32com.client
clsctx=pythoncom.CLSCTX_LOCAL_SERVER
i = win32com.client.DispatchEx("GoogleEarth.ApplicationGE", "IAD-PC10",
clsctx=clsctx)
</code>
Here is the error message I get:
Traceback (most recent call last):
File
"Z:\Programming\Eclipse_3_2_2_Workspace\Pytest2\src\root\nested\example.py",
line 5, in <module>
i = win32com.client.DispatchEx("GoogleEarth.ApplicationGE", "Remote_PC",
clsctx=clsctx)
File
"Z:\Applications\Programming\Python25_win\Lib\site-packages\win32com\client\__in
it__.py", line 112, in DispatchEx
dispatch = pythoncom.CoCreateInstanceEx(clsid, None, clsctx, serverInfo,
(pythoncom.IID_IDispatch,))[0]
pywintypes.com_error: (-2147023174, 'The RPC server is not available.', None,
None)
Does anyone know what I am doing wrong? I read in Mark Hammonds book 'Python
Programming on Win32' and suspect that the clsctx parameter must be
something like CLSCTX_REMOTE_SERVER instead the LOCAL variant above,
but I am not sure.
Furthermore the dcomcnfg tool seems to have changed and crashes when I
select 'component Services' in the tree to the left and then 'Computer'. The
book
is from year 2000 and therefore is not for Windows XP, but I use Windows XP
Professional. Do I still have to use dcomcnfg to activate and configure DCOM
on the serving machine where I want to start Google Earth?
If anyone could tell me how to start Google Earth remotely using python and
DCOM that would be awesome!
Best regards,
Peter.
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