Simon Carter wrote:

>>Can anyone tell me why a local connection to a Firebird 1.5
>>database would just hang on Windows 2003? I am connection
>>through the BDE (double click the alias and sign in) and the
>>hourglass just sits there never giving an error message.
>>Firebird services is on, port appears to be open (Telnet from
>>another machine to port 3050 results in blinking
>>cursor) I'm guessing this may have something to do with the
>>security.fdb and permissions? I have no idea as there is no
>>error returned.
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This is at a customer's site with no phone in the server room. He does
not know firebird. I can have him try a test, perhaps with the test
connection on the Firebird ODBC driver? but I dont think this is going
to make a difference.