No, no differences.

Have you got the entry in the services file for port 3050 on the NT client.
This can get removed when you add / remove NIC's or NIC settings.

Don't understand the significance of:

> The server shares a directory called "database" and the server name is
> "server".

"Duilio Foschi" <dedalus@...> wrote in message
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> today I tried to connect a new client to a server running FB on W2000.
>
> The server shares a directory called "database" and the server name is
> "server".
>
> I have successfully connected clients running W95 or W98 to the same

server.

>
> This time, the client runs Windows NT 4.0 .
>
> As a start, I checked that the server is regularly seen from "Network
> Resources".
>
> Then I tried to connect WISQL.
>
> I set the following parameters:
>
> remote server: checked
>
> server: server
>
> network protocol: tcp/ip
>
> database info: c:\db.gdb
>
> user name: SYSDBA
>
> password: masterkey
>
> These parameters always worked with W95/98 clients.
>
> This time, I got the message: "error while trying to open the file"
>
> I tried also
>
> database info: c:\database\db.gdb
>
> with no luck.
>
> Is there something special with WNT I should know ?
>
> This PC is the only one running WNT in the whole office and I was told

that

> the technician who built the network had to strive to connect this PC to
> the server (no further information re the reason...).
>
> TYIA
>
> Duilio Foschi
>
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