Helen,

Yes, I have been involved in C/S but only within a
terminal environment (COBOL, TurboImage (HP)) environment.
I have used many DB systems but just now getting started,
dragged willingly though, into C/S and some concepts are
easir to unlearn than others.

I have been operating without ever having come up
against the problem of Peer-2-Peer for a IB server.

Are you saying that IB will not work in such an
environment? At least in my case, and the main users,
I have they(I) are on a NT 4.0 environment even though I
develope on a single PC with tcp/ip _enabled_ and the
IB server running on the PC.

I guess I need to have you give me a basic idea of how
I need to set up a universal system if you could. I generally
just deal with developing apps and do not usually have to
install apps to a wide variety of setups, but will have
to be doing in the near future. Full stand-alone self
installing systems.

Do I need to just read, closely, the _Moving to
Client/Server_ document on Jasons web site to get the best
idead of what I need (To save your time)?

(My history of programming has been mostly with relational
DB systems that were very proprietary and were in-effect
flat file systems. I am having to adapt periodically to
upgrading systems and ideas with little assistance and
support. That is how it is in small city government in
the US. :| ). We now have about 8 different data systems
that need to be combined.

Steve Fields