Howdie,

> I apologize if this has been discussed recently.
>
> A client of mine has just installed the above server and I loaded FB 1.03

on

> it.
> All is great except for the connect time, used to be about 3-5 seconds,

now

> it's a full 30 seconds.
>
> Gives my customer a bit of a bad impression: buy a new server and it slows
> down. After they connect, all is fine and quite fast.

It's not the new server, I bet it's a new operating system as well, right?

If so, search the archive for "windows 2003".

> Any ideas for a quicker connect/disconnect would be greatly appreciated!

With regards,

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