Helen,
Downloaded and installed the windows version (Firebird 1.0.0.796) and
it worked perfectly. The gds32.dll might have been left over from
a Borland Interbase install.

Thanks !!
george

>
> George,
> the first place I would want to look is the version number of your
> gds32.dll client (in the system directory of the remote client) to make
> sure it is the right one for the server you are running. You
> will actually
> need to perform a client-only install on your Windows client using the
> correct version of the client library. That *does* mean downloading the
> Windows install of the same Firebird version that you installed on your
> Linux server.
>
> Helen
>
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