http://blogs.msdn.com/florinlazar/archive/2003/12/04/enable-network-dtc-access-in-windows-server-2003.aspxWhen you install Windows Server 2003, most of the services will be off by default, including MSDTC network access. If you are using COM+/Enterprise Services and [Transactions], you are most likely to hit errors when you want to go distributed: flow transactionsen-USCommunityServer 2.1 SP1 (Build: 61025.2)http://blogs.msdn.com/florinlazar/archive/2003/12/04/enable-network-dtc-access-in-windows-server-2003.aspx#41400Fri, 05 Dec 2003 06:27:00 GMT91d46819-8472-40ad-a661-2c78acb4018c:41400Robert McLawsI just published a MSKB article on how to do this for web environments where the web and SQL servers may not be on the same domain. It should be published by this time tomorrow.http://blogs.msdn.com/florinlazar/archive/2003/12/04/enable-network-dtc-access-in-windows-server-2003.aspx#47277Sat, 03 Jan 2004 06:29:00 GMT91d46819-8472-40ad-a661-2c78acb4018c:47277Robert Hurlbut's .Net Bloghttp://blogs.msdn.com/florinlazar/archive/2003/12/04/enable-network-dtc-access-in-windows-server-2003.aspx#47279Sat, 03 Jan 2004 06:31:00 GMT91d46819-8472-40ad-a661-2c78acb4018c:47279Florin Lazar's WebLoghttp://blogs.msdn.com/florinlazar/archive/2003/12/04/enable-network-dtc-access-in-windows-server-2003.aspx#85913Mon, 08 Mar 2004 15:26:00 GMT91d46819-8472-40ad-a661-2c78acb4018c:85913BojoThanks a lot! Few hours headache about this issue when installing a Win2003 based server. <br>One addition - you must first follow instructions in the KB artcile (to install it from windows components) then rest of this instruction.