From: "Ed Dressel" <dressel@...>

> > If so then a firewall of some kind is blocking 3050 - find it and
> > unblock it
>
> thanks.
>
> thats what I kept thinking and agree with you but can not for hte
> world of me figure out what is causing the lockage. I tried to
> configure Norton to allow 3050 open and also diabled Norton and turned
> all security off only to continue to have the problem

Just a thought, but have you made sure the client machine's gds32.dll
version is either the same or compatible with the servers?

Also, what operating systems are you using for each?

Woody (TMW)