> sadler55 wrote:
>
> > I am running a home network and the machine (winXP) which runs the
> > firebird/interbase application also accesses the internet for the
> > other machines. The other machines (win 98SE and win XP) lose their
> > connection to the internet when I install firebird and regain the
> > connection when I uninstall firebird and do a system restore to the
> > point just before I installed it. I have repeated this with
> > identical outcome.
> > Any thoughts on how/why this might occur and what I might try?
>
> WinXP Home?
> Using Microsoft 'share connection' stuff?
> These do not like local network TCP/IP and that is probably where the
> problem is.

I run Win2K on my machine and it serves as the internet shared connection. I
also run IB 6 and it has no effect what-so-ever on the other machines
connecting to the internet. I don't know what you mean by "local network
TCP/IP" but if you mean internal network IP addressing, mine is set up
exactly that way.

>
> Can you install Firebird on the 'other' XP machine. You don't need to
> USE it on that machine, only access it from the first machine, and you
> get the best of both worlds, if the other machine is not being used
> things can be quicker as you share the load :)

I have a feeling it is something else, not the internet sharing, which is
causing the problem. Just MHO, though. :)

Woody (TMW)