Using COM from Web Service

[Crazy Joe Devola]

Hi I am trying to create a ActiveX object from a C# web service. When I create the object I get a "Permission denined" exception. If I create the same object not from a web service, it works OK. Here is the code: V8O_PLU.CPluClass o ; // COM object o = new V8O_PLU.CPluClass(); // exception occurs Late biding causes same problem: Type ObjectType = Type.GetTypeFromProgID("V8O_PLU.CPlu"); object po = Activator.CreateInstance(ObjectType); Can anyone please advise why is this happening? as I said, the same code works OK from a non-web-service code (e.g. WinForm). Thank you.

[Crazy Joe Devola]

The problem was that aspnet_wp.exe runs under the user ASPNET . The ASPNET user is defined as part of the Users group. For some reason, on my development PC the ActiveX DLL's do not have permision for the Users to access. . Once I added the Users to the security list of my ActiveX's it works OK. On my QA systems these DLL's do allow the Users group to run them. Strange.