Lester,

> That is probably what I'm looking for - but I don't use any of those packages
> and I can't remember loading anything else on this machine - it only runs on
> local network. I suspect that 3050 is being allowed, since the connection test
> works - but the returns are being blocked? "connection actively refused" comes
> up in IB_SQL and IBOConsole - but I think the only way to fix this is wipe
> windows and try a clean install - which will be a nightmare :(

Hmmm, that would be the windows-way of solving problems...

Weird... just trying to rule out: could it be there are some old
gds32.dll or fbclient.dll lying around on the laptop? As you said, there
was first 1.5.3 and then 2.0.1 ?

John