Given are two identical programs running on different hosts which offer a 
servant (bound to a persistent POA with "IdAssignmentPolicyValue.USER_ID" 
and "LifespanPolicyValue.PERSISTENT") and which connect to the peer servant on 
the foreign host. 

The sequence for binding the servant is like this:
      persistentPoa.activate_object_with_id(ServantName.getBytes(), servant);
      (before, "jacorb.implname" has been set to "OB" and the POAs name 
      is set to "POA")

The sequence for getting the remote object-reference is
          String objName = "corbaloc:iiop:"+hostName+":"+hostIpPort+
                            "/OB/POA/"+ServantName;
          org.omg.CORBA.Object obj = orb.string_to_object(objName);          
          remotePeer = MyServantHelper.narrow(obj);

The error is, that the "remotePeer"-object is in fact the local servant!
The ORB does not even try to connect to the remote host, even when servant-
functions get called.

A workaround is to rename e.g. "OB" to "OB_<host-name>" so that the object's
name is even more different as it was.

The error applies to JacORB 2.0 beta1, too and can be reproduced on SUN Solaris 
8, too.