At 02:52 PM 9/05/2005 +0200, you wrote:

>Hi Helen,
>
>Helen Borrie wrote:
>
> > Werner,
> >
> > At 12:31 PM 9/05/2005 +0200, you wrote:
> >
> >>Hi All,
> >>
> >>I have a client who reports problems when running my application
> >>together with Norton Antivirus 2005.
> >
> >
> > Are you sure it is Norton AV and not Norton Internet Security?
>Not sure, will check.
> NIS is a
> > firewall and he will need to configure it to allow LAN access to the
>server
> > via TCP port 3050.
>
>Sorry, forgot to mention that the application uses Firebird Embedded on
>the client. And the database connection string I pass to kinterbasdb is
>this:
>self.ds = datasource(adapter="firebird", database=self.dbfilename,
> user="USER", password="passwd", charset="ISO8859_1")
>
>self.dbfilename contains something along these lines:
>C:\TheWineCellarBook\twcb.fdb
>
>I assumed that on this kind of setup there is no issue with TCP port 3050?

No, there shouldn't be. Still, it will be a needle in a haystack until you
find out which Norton product is stopping the connection/blocking the
client library/locking the database directory/whatever.

You could try posting a question to firebird-python to see whether there is
a known client issue with Win98 and any of the Norton utilities.

./heLen