Assuming you are the administrator and the firewall is turned ON (and
firebird is communicating through 3050 port)

Try checking the winXP integrated firewall's (has it's own icon in
control panel if you're using SP2) settings, logs (usually
C:\WINDOWS\pfirewall.log) etc. if there is anything about blocking or
not accepting connections on 3050 port, you have to open the 3050 port

Or if that sounds a bit complicated try turning the firewall off
(beware of malicious nasties!) until you test the connection and then
back on (do this if it is your computer and on your own risk). If it
works with the firewall turned off, that again means you have to open
the 3050 port for TCP communication through the firewall

> >
> > Are there other machines (other than the win98) trying to access this
> > database through the network?
> > > > Hello,
> > > >
> > > > Try to see on your XP machine if the integrated firewall (the

firewall

> > > > of windows XP) doesn't block the communication. The XP

firewall is on

> > > > by default, so this could block the communication coming from your
> > win98
> > > > machines.
> > > >
> > > > regards.
> > > >
> > > > Bernard.
> > > >
> > > > Francisco Antonio Vieira Souza a écrit:
> > > >
> > > > > I would like to ask what should I do to win98 machines conect to
> > > > > firebird in
> > > > > a winxp machine?
> > > > >
> > > > > I have this situation:
> > > > > 2 win98 machines
> > > > > 1 winxp machine with Firebird 1.5.1
> > > > >
> > > > > When my application (with Jaybird 1.5.2) tries to connect to the
> > > > > server this
> > > > > exception is shown:
> > > > > Unable to complete network request to "the machine IP/name".
> > > > >
> > > > > Is there anything different to config in win98 machines?
> > > > >
> > > > > Thanks a Lot
> > > > > Francisco
> > > > > ---
> > >
> > > Thanks but it is not the case, I can Map and access folders and

other

> > > programs in the winxp machine, I can eve execute the application
> > > directly from the winxp machine FROM the win98 machine.
> > > The problem is when I try to execute the application in the win98
> > > machine accessing just the DB in winxp machine.
> >
> No, no others machines, just 2 win98 machines trying to access then
> winxp machine.
>
> Could that be anything related to the HOSTS file in win98 or related to
> fbcliente.dll? (that just came to my mind)