At 02:20 PM 7/03/2005 -0600, you wrote:

>I have this customer that has one computer that has one of our programs
>that can't connect to the Firebird server. In our software we have
>multiple EXE's, each of which will open it's own connection to the
>firebird server. This one particular EXE can't seem to connect, it gets
>an error message, something about "An invalid argument was passed". It's
>strange that other EXE's on the same computer can connect just fine, and
>the same exe that can't on the one machine work just fine on their other
>machines. I've tried sending them a new EXE, fbclient.dll,

Does the application actually know that it has to load fbclient.dll?

>msvcp60.dll,
>rebooting the machine, I just don't know where I should be looking next.
>Any pointers?

The application can't find the host machine, so something is wrong with the
network setup on that client. Check that the IP address and hostname of
the host machine are in the client's HOSTS file. If you are not clear
about this, download the Quick Start Guide from the Firebird website.

btw, if you are getting "Invalid argument" as the text message associated
with this error code, then your client is either finding the wrong message
file or is receiving a hard-coded interpretation of this error code that is
masking the real cause of the problem.

./heLen