At 04:55 PM 30/03/2005 +0000, you wrote:

>I have successfully run IB6.0.1 locally at home for over a year and
>now I am trying to get FB 1.5.2 running on a peer-to-peer network at
>work. My FB server machine (also my dev mach) is running XP Pro and
>the client is running XP Home Ed. My FB database resides within the
>non-shared dir "C:\Program Files\AT6TestData". My client app will
>only run and connect to the database successfully, if I connect to the
>database from the server first. (I have a little app that only
>establishes the req'd connection, which I minimize.) This isn't SO
>awful, except I can't run the app, unless I'm logged onto the server.
> When I log off, Windows closes all network connections. What's weird
>is that the client PC can still ping the server when I'm logged off
>the server, but it gets an "access denied" error when attempting to
>connect to the database. Thx much in advance for your help.

Well, to me it seems pretty awful - and it's wrong, of course. The server
just hums along there, waiting for connections. It doesn't care (or even
know) where that first connection comes from.

So --

1. Do you have Firebird's client library on the client machine, or the old
IB 6 one?

2. Does the client's connection string look like this:

Servername:C:\Program Files\AT6TestData\any.fdb ?

or like this:

\\Servername\C:\Program Files\AT6TestData\any.fdb ?

...or is it something else?

3. What happens if you ping the server from the client BEFORE you try to
connect?

./hb