I use a Tcp/ip connection and a windows2000 Server, however writing
in tha database the ip address of the server, instead that the host
name, seems to function good.

Angelo
--- In firebird-support@yahoogroups.com, Grzegorz <e_hedwig@o...>
wrote:

> angmangia wrote:
>
> >connectiing form a client delphi6 application using
> >
> >IBCompnents, to a remote firebird database, after the
> >
> >request of login infornatoins,I get this error 'cannot attach to
> >
> >security database'. After that the engine freeze and I must
> >
> >rebbot the machine to restart.
> >
> Do you connect by tcp/ip or netbios? I had the same problem,

connecting

> with netbios - it was gone, when I changed connection tcp/ip.

Another

> way to go around it was to make directory of security.fdb shared on

the

> network when using netbios.
> However I still do not have any clue what was causing it, and

making it

> freeze.
>
> Grzegorz Modlinski