Thanks everyone

The trick was really the blank line in the Services file

Rui Francisco

Nigel Weeks wrote:

>You are using the the ibase_connect to connect to the database?
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>$conn = ibase_connect("localhost:c:/path/file1.fdb","user","pass");
>(Be careful about the colons around the drive letter - you've got them wrong
>in your email)
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>And you've got:
>The entry correct in your c:\windows\system32\drivers\etc\services file?
> gds_db 3050/tcp (You said you had 'gsb_db 3050/gdb' in your file)
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>one blank line at the bottom of your services file (Windows needs this...)
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>Nige
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>>-----Original Message-----
>>From: francisco_rui [mailto:francisco_rui@...]
>>Sent: Thursday, 11 November 2004 4:08 AM
>>To: firebird-php@yahoogroups.com
>>Subject: [firebird-php] Php shell script
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>>Hi,
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>>I'm using firebird in a php script for database access on a windows
>>machine
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>>The problem is the following:
>>I can connect to the database if i use the script in a browser but if
>>i execute it like a shell script i get the following error:
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>>DB Error: connect failed
>>[nativecode=Unable to complete network request to host "localhost".
>>Failed to l
>>ocate host machine. Undefined service gds_db/tcp.] **
>>ibase://user:pass@l
>>ocalhost/c:/path/file1.fdb
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>>I have already added gsb_db 3050/gdb to services file
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>>Does anybody had this problem before ?
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>>Thanks in advance
>>Rui Francisco
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