At 08:56 AM 1/02/2007, you wrote:

>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'.

Are you using Classic 1.5? No client can connect to Classic 1.5 via
an IPserver connection.

./heLen