At 03:17 PM 09-11-01 +0100, you wrote:

>I believe the local loopback works as some kind of emulation... I've tried
>it once and it seemed to work fine.

I use it for ALL local connections, on both Windows NT 4 and Linux, and it works fine whether the network is physically active or not. If you are working with a commercial edition of InterBase and you don't have any remote user licence installed, it won't work.

Helen

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