Thanks Steve.
You've got something.
I changed the connection string from
Stephane:C:\CAMAlot Release\Data Files\HISTORY.FDB
to
192.168.0.107:C:\CAMAlot Release\Data Files\HISTORY.FDB
and the connection time went from about 8 seconds to 1 or 2 sec.
That's great because the program connects to 6 DBs.
Don't know what the problem is with using names. Any ideas?

However, connectiong to the WinXP Pro SP2 machine is still MUCH
faster. It connects to all DBs almost instantaniously. I don't know
that it's because it's running Win Pro; it's only a guess.

Stephane


--- In firebird-support@yahoogroups.com, Steve Wiser <steve@s...>
wrote:

>
> Have you checked for name resolution issues with dns?
>
> -steve
>
> stephane_compass wrote:
> > How come connection to FB is soooo slow on certain systems?
> > On our LAN, there are FB databases on many computers. One of

them is

> > lightning fast when connecting, and all the others are

excruciatingly

> > slow.
> > The only difference I could see is that the fast computer is the

only one

> > running XP Pro, the others are on XP Home. Could that be the

reason?

> >
> > TIA,
> > Stephane
> >