On Wednesday 21 April 2004 15:41, rodbracher wrote:

> Our app works all over with windows clients to linux server or
> windows clients to non XP windows servers. So I am convinced it is
> some strange security issue.

And might be right. Microsoft, if I recall correctly, turned this feature
off in XP. You have to use tcp/ip to access a Firebird server on XP.

>
> We got this error at a client so I duplicated it here on our network
> between these two XP pc's
>
> my connect path is \\10.0.0.43\C:\PPerfect\SQLData\pperfect.gdb

And this syntax ought not to work anyway. The \\ indicates that you are
using whatever we are calling the NetBeui protocol these days. Said
protocol has absolutely no concept of IP addresses.

> or \\homebox\C:\PPerfect\SQLData\pperfect.gdb

You'll need NT, Win2k or Win2k3 to make that work.

Paul
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