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Thanks Paul.

tried this, no joy - but Bill's response did the trick.

btw, liked the "security reason", I've made a note for later use :-)

Russell


"Paul" <paul@see.my.sig.com> wrote in message 
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>
> "Russell Weetch" <russell@smxi.com.remove> wrote:
>
>> I have been having some problems on my new XP Pro box. I have installed
>> interbase client and server (v6.0.2), but I keep losing both - ie I can't
>> connect to either my localhost server or a remote server using IB 
>> Console.
>
>
> Check and make sure that you have one and only one version of gds.dll
> on the search path of your machine. Check also that it matches the
> version of the server(s) to which you are trying to connect. Have you
> tried to diagnose the connection with IBConsole?
>
>> Anyway, has anyone got any ideas?
>
>
> Uninstall, not forgetting to manually delete registry keys for both
> Interbase and IBConsole. Check to see that gds32.dll has gone from the
> machine completely - do a full search. Reboot, double check to see
> that everything has really and truly been removed from the machine.
> Reboot. Reinstall Interbase using the defaults for *_everything_*.
>
> Get latest IBConsole from codecentral and run that.
>
>
> That's about all I can think of at the moment. I have to warn you
> though, I did come across a similar problem at an IB install that I
> did once. Just couldn't get one client machine (the boss's) to connect
> using IBConsole. Eventually had to tell him that for security reasons
> he had to do any IBConsole stuff at the server itself.
>
>
>
> Paul...
>
>
>> Russell
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>
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> XP Pro, SP 2,
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> Interbase 6.0.1.0;
>
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