Hi Helen,

>> It seems a little strange - you think that it's running as a remote
>> desktop connection? I'm just in a cmd.exe window directly on the
>> machine (via vmware!).
>>
>
> No, it's not strange. The command window in Windows is not DOS. It
> is a shell that runs in the user's application space - in the case of
> a vmware client, it would be a shell in the guest client's space.
>
>

I'm probably being a bit thick here - but this is completely different
behaviour to XP. If I fire up a command window under xp then it all
works ok. Firing it up under Vista is when I get the problem (which the
localhost thing solves). I'm not sure that vmware really changes much -
I'm just running Vista within a virtual machine, logged into vista on
the virtual machine as an administrator, turned off the user account
control stuff.

It's interesting - I'm getting a similar problem within Delphi 6 and
dbExpress (under Vista). The database connection string also needs to
be 'localhost:c:\rising3.fdb' instead of just 'c:\rising3.fdb'.

Regards,

Peter Lee

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