>
> Are you sure?
> One of the main problems I have with stand alone machines is

WINDOWS

> switching off TCP/IP when it losses the cable. Intermittent

problems

> come from occasional breaks in the internet connection which stop

and

> restart network services - even though you do not expect it.
> So in a stand alone system are you connecting using local protocol,

or

> TCP/IP, and is there any internet connection on the machine ?
>

Very good point, we have found in the firebird.log that it is
connecting
as a client. Even though it is a local machine.
We use InterXPress to connect to Firebird. We will be now trying to
find out how to force local connection through InterXPress components,
on stand-alone machines.

Thank you ,

Robert.