John,

My issue is not that I cannot connect to FB, it is that FB won't even
start. If fb was running and I was unable to connect to it then, I
would tend to agree with you BUT how comes:

- fb seems to be the only application affected (Ie I also have Sybase
ASE 12.5, VMWare to run W2k and delphi, I browse the Internet and
read my emails still fb won't start)
- that reinstalling FB makes it work ? (at least for a while).


I agree wholeheartedly that this is probably not directly an fb issue
and that it is more of a general configuration issue on my laptop. But
since FB is the onlty one affected, I suspect that during install some
info is picked up and when it disagrees at a later stage -> fb won't
start.

so I would love to know:
1- what FB uses at startup time which is network-related
2- what the following extra of firebird.log actually means

>Quaddra (Server) Sun Jan 15 11:07:02 2006
> > Database:
> > operating system directive open failed
> > Permission denied

Database is empty, I have got no real idea about where to start!

>
> Looks like not a Firebird-issue. If You have ONE way of coonecting FB
> via the network, then FB is ok. If other ways fail, it has nothing

to do

> with FB.
>
> Try ping the FB-server first (assumed it replies to ping). If that
> fails, don't look further: it's the network, its setup, its mask, its
> routes or whatever. If ping works, the most parts of your nework is ok.
> Then start looking further...
>
> regards
> John'
>