As a side to this issue, I have never been able to use OpenDSObject in my Perl OLE stuff because I could never satify the NULL require as the third parameter to OpenDSObject. I tried every thing imaginable. M$ engineer suggested I use3 VB (vbNullString) or C++ ((void*)0). Can you get any farther by just executing code under an account with Admin perms and using GetObject which uses the security context of the current user?
