> > a) insert in the HOSTS file at the win95 client
> >
> > 192.168.0.1 mydbserver
> >
> > and connect with the string
> >
> > mydbserver:c:\program files\myapp\data300.gdb
> >
> > on the win95 client
>
> As I said in my origional message, we tried that, and got the same

error message.

Since the original error message was:

Unable to complete network request to host "192.168.0.1"
Failed to locate host machine
The specified name was not found in
the hosts file or domain name services

then after the change, the error message would be:

Unable to complete network request to host "mydbserver"
Failed to locate host machine
The specified name was not found in
the hosts file or domain name services

So when you got two times the same error message, you did something
wrong.

Did you check, that the errormessage is like the second one?

The gds32.dll use gethostbyname()-call to resolve the hostname. The
old
winsock-dll cant resolve ip-to-ip in this call, only name-to-ip is
possible. All other Windows-versions can ip-to-ip, too.

HTH,
Tord