>> 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.
>
>

No - Superserver - just uninstalled and reinstalled again to be sure.

PL

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