At 11:18 PM 1/06/2005 +0000, you wrote:

>SS, XP Pro host, XP Home client. FB1.5.2 build 4731
>peer-to-peer
>not domain name services network
>Delphi 7 Ent, IBPhoenix ODBC driver, ADO
>
>if, when using TCP/IP communications, you must connect to a host that
>has a known IP address and the host's IP address is dynamic, and the
>client can "see" the host's computer NAME in "My network Places" and
>can traverse all dir's there, except Program Files..., what does one
>do to create an odbc datasource name like (NSTI-2 is the host computer
>name)
>NSTI-2:C:\Program Files\AT6Test\MyDatabase.fdb?
>The odbc manager returns the error:
>
>"Unable to complete network request to host "NSTI-2".
>Failed to locate host machine.
>The specified name was not found in the hosts file or Domain Namne
>Services.
>
>I have read Helen's book and don't know where to go.
>All attempts to identify NSTI-2 in the hosts file have failed.

Have you set up the host's NIC card to a static IP address?

btw, this response is not an attempt at a solution to your problem, because
we don't know all of the parameters of the problem yet.

For example, we don't know whether you have installed TCP/IP on the two
machines. If you have, you haven't mentioned what you did to verify that
TCP/IP is working. (ping, telnet, see Adam's reply).

What were your "attempts to identify NSTI-2 in the hosts file" ?

Can you connect to a database from the XP Home client using isql and the
NetBeui protocol?

\\NSTI-2\C:\Program Files\AT6Test\MyDatabase.fdb

./hb