I use a Tcp/ip connection on a windows 2000 Server, without any
shadow, nor using directory sharing. Howevere wirting in the database
the ip address instrad of the host name, seems function goog.

Angelo
--- In firebird-support@yahoogroups.com, "Alan McDonald" <alan@m...>
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
>
> If it was freezing on a share? Was in WinServer2003? Did you have

disk

> shadow active? If so that's why.
> Alan