Hi Albert,
have you "NetBIOS" installed as a networkprotokoll?
Try to disable it (remove it).

Andre

Albert wrote:

> Yes, the routes are correct and all the clients can ping the servers as well
> as telnet’em (so there aren no blocking firewalls between).
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> When they launch the program, it usually takes 1-2 minute to connect to the
> database, as steve has pointed before, it seems like there is a dhcp
> timeout. What I don’t really know is what address do they need to resolve ¿?
> There are some old w98 computers on that network.