> >Duh.. I'm an idiot. I've got it working now. At least my

compiled

> >file will connect, but its not possible to connect in the delphi
> >design environment as far as i can tell.
>
> What *is* your "Delphi design environment"? (apart from Delphi,

of

> course). What db access components are you using to connect? Why

do you

> think its not possible to connect in the IDE, if the compiled app

is able

> to connect?

I think it is not possible because I can't get it to connect. Maybe
if I put the FB dll in the windows/system folder it would work, but
I have regular FB installed and don't want to mess that up.

> >db because I'm lazy.
>
> Can't work that one out...

<g>

> >I'm still confused about this. Even though I can connect, I'd

still

> >like an explaination of 'true local access'
>
> On Windows you have two sorts of local access: TCP/IP local

loopback

> (connection string like localhost:d:\mydata\database.fdb)

and "true local

> access" which (when running a server) is a hack that connects the

client to

> the server without using the network protocol. It's this latter

that the

> embedded server uses. It can't use tcp/ip local loopback.

That's a good explaination. Thanks. :)