CFObject - Instantiating remote COM object access issue

I've used a few COM objects before and never had any issues, but this is the first one I've ever used with the attribute context='remote'.  I have a CF app server computer, and a mail server that contains the DLLs I'm looking to tie into.  I'm not in a server environment, these are just a couple of laptops I have lying around I'm using to test things out.

Here's what my basic code looks like:

<cfobject type="com" class={xxxxxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xxxxxxxx} name="TestObject" action="create" context="remote" server="\\MyMailServer" />

Here is the error that is returned:

An exception occurred when instantiating a COM object.  The cause of this exception was that: AutomationException: 0x80070005 - General access denied error.

If I change the name of the server attribute to something that doesn't exist, the error changes to this:

An exception occurred when instantiating a COM object.  That case of this exception was that: java.net.UnknownHostException: BadServerName

So it seems I'm getting to the remote server.  This is where I'm making assumptions on things I really don't know much about.  Has anyone ever encountered an error such as this?  Any tips on how I could further debug/troubleshoot?  I'm not sure what I'm denied access to, and even if I did, I wouldn't know how to auth a user to make the call.

If I can provide any more info about what I'm trying to do that you think would be helpful or I may have left out, please ask.  Any tips or hints would be greatly appreciated.