--- In firebird-support@yahoogroups.com, "joseph_ceasar"
<joseph_ceasar@y...> wrote:

> I don't know what I did, but I managed to break the localhost
> connection. I am using FB1.52 and the localhost connection was fine
> until one day I could no longer connect to the local host in
> IBOCONSOLE. The error message that i get is:
>
> Cannot attach to services manager.
>
> Of course I worked around it by using a TCP/IP connection and using
> 127.0.0.1 as the IP address. It would be nice to find out what I
> broke and how to fix it.
>
> I tried uninstalling and reinstalling FB but that did not help at all.
>
>
>
> Thank you for any help

Mentioning your operating system could probably help a little. I know
that running Terminal Services on win2003 can cause issues
with "localhost", I do not know if remote desktop and remote assistance
(being a cut down terminal server) suffers the same fate.

I would be running a ping to localhost to see what IP address it tries
to connect to. I doubt it is a firebird setting. It is far more likely
to be a network configuration issue. Again, assuming you are running
some breed of windows,

Have you (or another program) accidentally removed the line

127.0.0.1 localhost

from C:\Windows\SYSTEM32\Drivers\hosts
(or wherever it is installed)

Adam