> I'm not sure I understand. Are you saying that when an
> FBWrappingDataSource is opened under WindowsXP it pulls a copy of the
> entire database over to the XP machine from the Firebird database on the
> Linux server?

I don't think he meant that. Euvgeny suspected the known issue with WinXP
where the .gdb extension belongs to the list of extensions for which system
recovery is enabled. This causes slow connection times when server runs on
Windows.

The behavior you see is somehow related to opening the socket connection.
Try connecting to the server via isql and check the times. There is nothing
in FBWrappingDataSource that could cause the delay, it is very likely to be
either related to network configuration or to your server installation.

Roman