Roman,

> Check if localhost is correctly resolved and there is no ip filtering
> rules that block connection to port 3050. isql will not start the
> server via inetd when used with localhost. JayBird uses normal
> network connection to connect to database. Test if you can connect to
> your database from another machine.

Thanks, for some reason Mandrake had not setup localhost correctly with
a dhcp/bootp network. I have moved to a static ip address and it works
fine. I'll debug Mandrake separately.

I was confused because I thought that if isql worked then localhost must
be fine.

Regards

Dave
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