Helen,

> >First of all, thanks for the help sofar. I have solved the problem
> >now. The tip about TCP naming conventions gave me an idea. Like I
> >said, I also created an ODBC connection after having the IBPhoenix
> >ODBC Driver installed on my station (for test purposes, both the db
> >and the asp source are on my workstation). In the field where I
> >specify the database, I replace the computer name by "localhost".
> >That solved the problem. However, solving the problem without
> >knowing why it is exactly solved isnt good enough.
> >
> >Has anyone got any idea of what went wrong and why this works????
>
> Because the "Windows local" connection is not multi-user or
> thread-safe.

From the above text: "In the field where I
specify the database, I replace the computer name by "localhost". "

So, that's a bit different.

I wonder why this didn't work - some name resolving error?
Winsock 2?

With regards,

Martijn Tonies
Database Workbench - developer tool for InterBase, Firebird, MySQL & MS SQL
Server.
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