--- In ib-support@yahoogroups.com, "steve11r2003" <srice@p...> wrote:

> 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
>
> This works and allows the users to connect to the database. It

It is a local address, may be you have a local copy of the database ?

try this syntax :
<server ip address>:<server drive>:<path><database name>

if you can connect you have a tcp-ip name resolution problem. May be
there no DNS server. Try to ping with server name