--- In firebird-support@yahoogroups.com, Helen Borrie <helebor@t...>
wrote:

>
> Here you are doing a "Windows local" connection. It does not use

a network

> protocol.
>
> Localhost is not the same thing: it is an emulated network

connection, to

> the TCP/IP local loopback server. Try a lls connection with isql,

as follows:

>
> SQL>CONNECT 'localhost:drive:\path\to\database\file' user 'sysdba'

password

> 'masterkey';
>

This worked fine!

> I believe this limitation was inherent in the early version of

IBOConsole,

> too, but was fixed later, to take account of the fact that some

aspects of

> the Services API were implemented for Fb 1.5 Classic. You might

want to

> consider visiting www.mengoni.it, and downloading the most recent
> IBOConsole executable.
>
> ./heLen

I am using IBOConsole. The point is that the "local server"
connection used to work. At one point it broke. I remember
installing a new network connection to a VPN and after that it seems
that this happened. I deleted the new network connection but that
did not solve the problem......