Dion Oliphant schrieb:

> Is XP not considered a 'server'?

You mix up things.
One is your network that can be set up as "peer to peer" between your
machines (although I think that in this configuration the XP computer
will more or less take responsibility as the server machine).

The other is the setup of Firebird.
1) You need a Firebird server installed.
2) You need a database file on the machine where the Firebird server is
installed.
3) You need a Firebird client to access the database file through the
Firebird server. This can reside on any machine that is able to connect
to the Firebird server through TCP/IP (i.e. in your case both computers)

You should:
1) Install Firebird on the XP machine.
2) host your database on this machine.
3) "install" fbclient.dll on the Win98 machine.
With any access method (component library, database tool...) that is
running on the Win98 machine you can now access the database through the
server on the XP machine.

HTH
Urs