> AS I day it is a loooong story, suffice to say my client workstations
> running IB5.x clients can connect to the IB6/FB1 server db, what I
> need to do is run a 5 client and a 6 db on the same box. Can you help?
>

Help yourself really - just try it.
If you're determined to do this then just do it but we are saying that
corruptions and or exceptions are possible
Alan