Helen, all,

>>Try using <hostname>:<database> instead.

H> Necessary for local clients that are running as a remote desktop (terminal
H> services client) but not otherwise.

did I mention 2 or 3 thousand times already <g> that I do it all the
time? I am on terminal right now and isql localhost:dbname works just
fine.

Ciao
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