At 10:47 AM 27-12-01 +0200, you wrote:

>Hi Helen
>
>> Make sure that they are all connecting to
>OURSERVER:D:\ourpath\ourdatabase.gdb with *no* variation on this connection
>string format; no mapped drives, no drive designators that are missing the
>backslash after, no IP addresses.
>
><<< no IP addresses>>>
>
>why we should not use IP adress in the connection string. Doesn't we give IB
>an easy way to connect to the server. I think IB first try to resolve the IP
>adress from the <servername> then connect to the server???

IB doesn't resolve it, it passes it to the network layer. Winsock 1 (which is on the Win95 workstations) treats an IP address as a string, so e.g. for a Win96 w/station presenting a server name of 192.12.13.1 you get a long delay while it queries the network for a server with the *domain name* "192.12.13.1" before, eventually, it will analyse the string and break it down to an IP address.

AFAIK, this doesn't happen with Winsock2...

H.