Could also be that they installed the classic version. It seems to require remote protocol and deny any local connection.

Jason

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At 07:39 PM 13/02/2004 +0000, you wrote:

>When attempting to connect to the latest Firebird database, I get a
>message "unavailable database" when attempting to connect to local
>databases. My server connection works fine. What would cause this?

Not reading the readme about changes to the name and location of the client
library?

Helen