As an addition to Helen's advice to move it to fb-devel.

> I could not connect locally to my database, but using TCP/IP all was
> well. Using the old gds32 ( 6.2.2.908 or 6.2.0.794), I could connect
> to my database with either FB 1.0.2 or 1.5 beta 4. Using the new
> gds32 + fbclient (or fbclient renamed to gds32), local connections
> failed with either server version, reporting "unavailable database".

Please read /doc/WhatsNew.txt before posting your questions. It contains the
answer to this one.


Dmitry