Thanks Helen.

Some things I will need to check then :

1. That my boss (who is the one struggline with these problems)
hasn't installed Superserver in error

2. That the hostname / IP address is changed as suggested.

Regards

Tim

At 10:53 09/01/2008, you wrote:

>At 07:19 PM 9/01/2008, you wrote:
> >Hi everyone,
> >
> >I am finding it impossible to connect to FB on MS Vista. I have read
> >through the support mailing list before making this post, but it
> >seems I am missing the point and doing something incredibly stupid.
> >
> >FB seems to run without a problem. (As Classic Server with the dinky
> >little icon in the bottom right hand tray)
>
>Ummm....the "dinky little icon" is Guardian. As instructed just
>about everywhere, don't use Guardian with Classic. (Not that this is
>likely to be the immediate source of your problem).
>
> >I cannot connect to it using IBConsole or EMS Manager.
> >
> >In both cases, the error message returned is that FB cannot connect
> >to "127.0.0.1".
> >
> >The Windows firewall is switched off.
> >
> >User Accounts are switched off.
> >
> >Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.
>
>On Vista, since your local application is actually running as a
>remote desktop client, there is no "local loopback server" that it
>can validly refer to. You'll need the hostname (network node name)
>of the server (or the IP address, if it is stable).
>
>./heLen
>

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