Nathan,

Can you ping LOCALHOST?

Is their a gds_db 3050/tcp entry in your Services. file? (sometimes,
unpredicably, the install doesn't add this)


Sean

> -----Original Message-----
> From: nathan@...
> [mailto:nathan@...]
> Sent: Tuesday, February 27, 2001 7:56 PM
> To: ib-support@yahoogroups.com
> Subject: [ib-support] Win32 error 10061
>
>
> Getting Win32 error 10061 when try to connect to database other than
> using local path name. i.e. C:\Foo.bar is fine using IBConsole, but
> localhost:C:\Foo.bar gives:
> Unable to complete network request to host "localhost".
> Failed to establish a connection.
> unknown Win32 error 10061
>
> All the stuff I can find on this error is licencing issues not
> applicable to firebird 0.9.4.41 or wierd library issues (this is only
> version I've ever installed) or to do with symlinks (this is on
> Win2000 & Win98).
>
> Also: Is it normal to have to manually configure etc/services? Is
> this related?
>
> cheers,
>
> Nathan.
>
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