[python-win32] Access is denied on COM object

[Jorgensen, Jens]

This would seem to be a COM security problem rather than a 
Python-related one. There's a lot to COM security so I'm not even going 
to attempt to delve into this. Take a read through this little article 
about COM security though, it might help:

http://support.microsoft.com/support/kb/articles/Q158/5/08.asp

Jim Vickroy wrote:

>Hello,
>
>I'm trying to create a Windows *service* that exposes a COM object.
>
>I appear to be registering the COM object, installing the service that
>exposes it, and then starting that service.
>
>When I attempt to access the COM object from another process via a
>statement of the form:
>
>handle = win32com.client.Dispatch ( entry.COM_server._reg_progid_ )
>
>the following exception is raised:
>
>(-2147024891, 'Access is denied.', None, None)
>
>Any ideas what I'm doing wrong?
>
>Thanks
>
>
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Jens B. Jorgensen
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