At 10:15 PM 10/04/2005 +0000, you wrote:

>The connection is being made and I am sure that the connection
>string is correct.

Provide the connection strings you are using, both for local and remote
clients.

>I'm pretty sure that there must be something
>blocking port 3050 on Windows 2003 because the server cannot even
>talk to the firebird server itself.

Is TCP/IP installed and running on both host and clients? Have you tried
pinging the server from the clients? Have you tried pinging localhost from
the server?

>I have seen the same issue on a windows 2000 machine running windows
>2000 server, with the exception that the server could talk to itself
>but clients could not.

Sounds like the clients are not running TCP/IP either.

>In this case I was able to get the client talking using a netbeui
>connection. I may have to try the same on the Windows 2003 server.

If a netbeui (Named Pipes) connection works then you know that the network
physically works. It won't resolve why your TCP/IP connections are failing.

In another posting, didn't you say that you couldn't see port 3050
listening when you ran netstat -an?

./hb