Thank you all, your replies where very much appreciated.

It passed all the localhost tests but it turned out that both FB and
Interbase where on the same machine, both on port 3050! I've no idea how
it managed to connect to the right one most of the time - it just seemed to
fail when it tried to make more than one connection from the same exe -
suspect it has something to do with gds32.

Anyway now fixed by putting FB on 3060 and using localhost/3060 as the
server.

Regards
Paul

> -----Original Message-----
> From: firebird-support@yahoogroups.com
> [mailto:firebird-support@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of Adam
> Sent: 18 March 2008 23:27
> To: firebird-support@yahoogroups.com
> Subject: Re: [firebird-support]Localhost wont work on a laptop?
>
> --- In firebird-support@yahoogroups.com, "Paul Hope"
> <paulhope@...> wrote:
> >
> > Hello
> >
> > We have 2 laptops - both running XP sp2 with FB1.5 SS. On one
> > localhost works in a connection string and on the other it doesnt -
> > gives the
> error
> > cant open file localfilename (without localhost on the front).
> > We need localhost to get mutiple connections for multithreading -
> any ideas
> > what to look at?
>
> 1. Check Firebird is running (check taskmanager for either
> fb_server.exe (Superserver) or fb_inet_server.exe (Classic Server))
>
> 2. Make sure localhost works
>
> ping localhost
>
> Should get reply from 127.0.0.1
> If not, open c:\windows\system32\drivers\etc\hosts and add the line
>
> 127.0.0.1 localhost
>
> save it then try again.
>
> 3. Make sure you are not firewalled
>
> Try
>
> telnet localhost 3050
>
> If you get an error, your firewall is in the way. Make an
> exception for either the firebird process or port 3050. If it
> just goes black, you should be fine.
>
> Adam
>
>
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