Helen Borrie wrote:

> At 04:12 PM 11/03/2005 +0000, you wrote:
>
> OK, you established that you have the right client. Next, just make
> double-sure that there isn't a stray gds32.dll in the application path or
> somewhere else in the user's path, just to put that one to bed.
>

I've got the correct version in the app's path. This should override any
other place there might be a version on their pc, no?

>
>
>>I'm certain that it's not a problem with the app as they've been running
>>it for quite some time with no problems.
>
>
> I'm curious to know what this "randomly" thing means. Does it mean some
> users can connect, while some can't? Or the same user can connect
> sometimes and not others? Remote users can connect, but local users
> can't? Or the first user can't connect?
>

It works fine for quite a while, then one instance of the app (not
always the same pc or user) gets the problem. Once that happens it's
more likely to start happening to other instances.
I've never had the problem when running the app on their db server.

> What's the exact message and at what point does it occur?
>
> What do you see in the Firebird.log?
>
> Which model of the server is installed? Classic (fb_inet_server.exe) or
> Superserver (fbserver.exe)? On what platform? If XP, what's the name of
> the database?
>
> ./hb

win 2000 terminal, superserver.

The error was "not able to connect to host:[ip]", thrown up by ibx.
I lost the log when I deleted firebird (doh!)

Deleted firebird and reinstalled it over the weekend, and they haven't
had a problem since, but it could well come up again. The thing that is
strangest to my eyes, is that gsec doesn't work without the security
database being specified. How does gsec normally determine which one to use?


Thanks,
JD