Well, let's take this step by step then... on the client machine, see if
you can:

telnet dbservername gds_db

Do you get a connection?

Jason


Sam Hunt wrote:

> The app I am creating will be installed on networks with static and
> dynamic IP addresses. I cannot use a static IP in the connection
> string, and, in an earlier reply from Helen, she suggested that my
> networks (peer-to-peer) DHC (I'm tring to say dynamic IP address
> process.) might not be working as expected.
>
> Could Delphi/ADO be a problem here?
> Sam Hunt
> (will trim next reply)
>