At 07:12 PM 26/09/01 +1000, Helen wrote:

>To clarify, the 'connection string bug' was not related to remote users
>connecting to a database which was being accessed by a local user.
>
>It relates to omitting the backslash after the drive identifier in the
>physical path string and the corruption will occur whenever there are
>concurrent users, at least one of which omits the backslash whilst one or
>more others include it.

Because I'm not using Firebird, I've gorn and broke the thread :>)

Thanks for the clarification, Helen. So are there any circumstances in
which the use of localhost is desireable/essential?

I spent some time incorporating localhost into my code, but currently the
great majority of our clients are desktop users who then had to fiddle with
the hosts and services files. Incidentally it appears that Windows reads
the hosts file only at startup, so if a change is made a reboot is required
before it is seen.

I have now removed all references to localhost and would be only too
pleased to leave things thus.

Peter Lawson