chip@... wrote:

>
> Wiser heads:
> I appear to be having similar connection problems, but have been
> unable to get the suggested remedies to work for me. I need some
> configuration help, or to be told where to look. (My docs are v4.0.
> Can I get the Ops Guide separately, or do I need to download all 10MB
> of the new stuff?)
> I recently installed FirebirdSS-0.9-4p1.i386.rpm onto "rivendell",
> a Linux box. Rivendell acts a a Samba (windows connectivity) file
> server and a bzflag server for my son's slumber parties. All appears
> to work from the server console or when I telnet in from a Win98
> machine. When I attempt to use a remote Win32 client, however, I am
> stymied.
> Using WISQL, attempting to connect
> to "rivendell:/opt/interbase/examples/employee.gdb" generates:
> Unable to complete network request to host "rivendell"
> Failed to locate host machine
> Undefined service gds_db/tcp.

Sounds like a missing entry in the services file of your win32 client.

check that your windows\services file contains
gds_db 3050/tcp
and some linefeeds at the end.

> Attempting to connect
> to "//rivendell/opt/interbase/examples/employee.gdb" yields:
> Unable to complete network request to host "rivendell"
> Failed to establish a connection.
> Network access is denied.
> Thinking that I might have a permissions problem, I tried to
> create "//rivendell/home/samba/ib/sample.gdb", (a directory that is
> read-write-execute to the world) which gave me the same error message.

This is as expected. You won't be able to connect to an IB server on
a Linux box via netbeui.

Frank
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