At 03:02 AM 09-04-01 +0000, you 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?)

One of our Italian friends has the separate PDF files available for download. I seem to recall he posted the link on the mers newsgroup several months ago. Perhaps you could search the mers archives on "manuals" or "Acrobat".

It seems your Win 98 clients are missing an entry in their HOSTS file. AFAIK, there is no automated tool for this - you must open it in a text editor and add an entry like:

222.22.0.22 Rivendell #InterBase server.

You cannot use NetBEUI to connect to Linux - it works ONLY on Microsoft proprietary networks. Ideally, push NetBEUI to the bottom of the client machne's connection stack, or get rid of it entirely. (You don't need it for SMB services on Windows and it doesn't work at all for Linux. Your TCP/IP connection string to a database on a Linux server must have the correct **nix format, viz.

Rivendell:/opt/databases/MyDB.gdb

You *don't* use (or need) SMB to connect to an InterBase server.

Beyond that, your client login may have authorization problems on the Linux server.

Cheers,
Helen

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