I have been using Firebird 1.5. On my machine I do not ever have to
supply localhost as part of the database path. On our servers where
we install Firebird, we always have to supply localhost as part of the
database path to login into the database. Otherwise we get the
unavailable database error message.

I am not sure what the difference is between my machine and the
servers. I don't have any environment variables setup on my machine
(WinXP) that I can see. I have used the same Firebird install (off of
sourceforge) on both machines.

The servers that we ship out have Win2003 OS installed. I am not sure
what else to check.

Any ideas?

-Shaq