Hi, Install Firebird windows "client". $ wine Firebird-2.1.3.18185_0_Win32.exe and select "client minimal" It shoud work. Do this after each wine upgrade. -- Good Morning I'm working with MANDRIVA 2008. My application has been witten with Delphi 7. As long as I had FireBird 1.5, i could connect my program to a DataBase without any problem using Wine. Since I have installed Firedird 2.1 the application cannot connect. If I run Flamerobin directly under Linux, no pb I have used as a path the one given in Flamerobin : no connection I have used the path : //ip_adress:/home/mydirectory/myBase.fdb : no connection I have used sommething like ip_Adress/3050/home/..... : no connection It's a bit boring !!!! Shere did I do a mistake ?