--- In firebird-support@yahoogroups.com, "Jeff Rasnick" <jeffr@s...>
wrote:

> 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
>
> [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]

Just a couple of suggestions:

Could be a DNS problem - try using the static ip address rather than
the netbios name

..or authentication? Try adding the user that your XP client is
logged in as to your 2000 server local users.

HTH