Hi Vlad,
thanks for detailed reply

> It seems so. Unfortunately, Nickolay, who committed the code, didn't enter the ticket
> into the tracker and we can't plan to backport change into 2.0 branch.
>

So I switch from XNET to INET in my app to be reliable/portable on all Windows OSes.
I will prefix path in connection string with "localhost:"

Bye
-Laco.