Artur,

I added the entry 192.168.200.1 RECORDS
to my hosts file but it still gives the error.

(Again my connect string is RECORDS:E:\Data\BikeReg.GDB)
Also this one is not P2P, but WinNT 4.0

Steve Fields

--- In IBObjects@yahoogroups.com, "Artur Anjos" <artur@a...> wrote:
> Steve,
>
> On a peer-to-peer network one good practice is creating a hosts
files, with
> all ip's of all computers in the nework and copy this file to all
computers.
> It should be something like:
>
> 127.0.0.1 localhost
> 192.168.0.1 PC_1
> 192.168.0.2 PC_2
> etc
>
> This way you will never have problems identifying or locating the
computers.
>
> Remember: when you try to connect a PC by it's name, he should get
that info
> somewhere. It will look first at hosts files, so this will be the
place to
> make it independent of NETBEUI network (it should translate the ip
to name)
> or DNS server (the place it will look at the end).
>
> Artur