Nathan,

Did you recently install/update TCP or a service
pack on your Windows machine. It's not uncommon
that doing so overwrites the services file thus
crippling a previous InterBase install dependency.

Markus

--- In ib-support@y..., nathan@t... wrote:
> Sean,
>
> Thanks for your help. It seems that brute force and ignorance on my
> part has solved the problem. The services file wasn't updated and
the
> service, though added with automatic start, possibly wasn't started.
> Once the services file was updated it seemed it needed a telnet to
> the port to wake it up in some way and then it magically started
> working. Go figure...
>
> cheers,
>
> Nathan.
>
> --- In ib-support@y..., "Leyne, Sean" <InterbaseSupport@a...> wrote:
> > 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