Greetings -

InterBase 6.0.1.6
Delphi 5.1

I am having a problem when initially making a connection from an XP (Pro) machine to a Windows 2000 Server. The initial connection takes about 20 seconds (if I immediately disconnect and connect to the DB again inside the program it takes a second or less) After the connection is established everything appears to work fine. I do have System Restore turned off on the XP machine as well as Hyper-threading disabled.

Here are some other interesting items:

If I run the same program connecting from my XP machine to use the local server on the XP (using TCP/IP connection string) the connection is established in less than a second

If I run the program connecting from a windows 98 machine to the Windows 2000 Server the connection takes around a second

If I run the program on the Windows 2000 server connecting to the local server on the Windows 2000 Server the connection takes less than a second

If I run the program from the Windows 2000 server connecting to the remote server on the Windows XP machine the connection takes less than a second

So you can see that the only problem I am having is when the windows XP machine is trying to connect to a remote server on the Windows 2000 machine.

Does anyone have any ideas why this might be happening?

Thanks for any help.

Jeff

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