Here is the issue we're seeing with connection strings using Firebird 1.0,
Delphi 6, IBX 6.03, Windows 2000 Professional Clients, Windows 2000 Server,
TCP.

We configure clients to connect with a connection string like this...

<server name>:<server drive>:<path><database name>

example:

Server::f:\my program\my database.gdb
(f is a physical drive on the server and not a mapped drive)

We have been successful at many locations using this connection string and
to my knowledge this is the proper syntax of the connection string. Here is
the issue...

As of today, we've had two different locations report that their connection
to the database failed and were then unable to reconnect to the database
using this connection string syntax. They tried this syntax...

<server drive>:<path><database name>

example:

f:\my program\my database.gdb

I have read quite a bit on this and have not seen anything to lead me to
believe this should work as a connection string. Also, the proper
connection string, should not fail.

Has anyone any experience regarding this?

Thanks,
Steve