At 01.18 06/12/2000 -0000, you wrote:

>Please excuse the rank newbie question, but I'm sure I'm missing
>something.
>
>It's taking IBConsole a LONG time to log in to a remote server.
>
>I've installed IB6 on our NT 4 (SP6) Server and configured it to use
>TCP/IP.
>
>Ive installed IBClient, Local IB and IBConsole on one of our
>workstations.
>
>IBConsole is VERY responsive when logging in to the local server. It
>is dog-slow when logging into the remote server. It does eventually
>log in. Connecting to a database on the server takes a similarly
>long time but is also, eventually, successful.
>
>I'm pretty sure this can't be normal, but poring over the IB6 docs
>hasn't revealed anything helpful.
>
>Suggestions?

Surely There is a problem with your TCP/IP DNS configuration.
Ensure that in your lmhosts or in your DNS server
you have configured all the workstation you are accessing using TCP/IP stack.
With regards
Marco