At 05:45 PM 6/05/2008, ra8009 wrote:

>The host machine has the Firebird server and the Firebird data file on
>it. One user on the host machine runs an application that connects to
>the database. One user on one client machine (connected to the host
>machine peer to peer) uses one application to read data from the host
>computer.

As I mentioned earlier "peer-to-peer" is irrelevant around Firebird. It cannot do peer-to-peer. So I suppose you mean there is a straight-through cable or a wireless connection between the two systems.

>The protocol using IB Objects is set to cpLocal for all
>applications. Until everything on the client machine had to be
>reinstalled, everything had worked fine for years.

I don't believe you, sorry. A cpLocal connection does not work across a network interface and *none* of the IBO connection protocols makes it so.

You still haven't provided the connection string that your application uses.

./heLen