On 9 Apr 2001, at 3:02, 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.
> 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.
> In each case, the ISC Error Code was 335544721.
> I have installed gds32.dll to the Win98 client's "/windows/system".
> I have added an /etc/hosts.equiv file with the
> entry "localhost.localdomain".
> Rivendell's /etc/services contains an entry:
> # Local services
> gds_db 3050/tcp # Interbase (etc.)
> The /opt/interbase/README file causes me some concern, as it
> identifies itself as:
> Firebird 1.0 Classic Server for Linux
> The silly thing--from my perspective--is that I compiled Interbase
> from whatever source Inprise/Borland originally released and connected
> without a hitch. Now, I can't get the newer version to work. What
> haven't I configured correctly?

You need to make sure that the Win98 machine also has and entry in
the services file for gds_db. Run ib_console, select the server you
want, and select Diagnose Connection, go to the TCP/IP tab, and run
all of the tests, you will probably get one of them coming back with
an error message.

> My telnet session, should it be helpful, is reproduced below. (I've
> added some line breaks for clarity.)
>

We can assume that if telnet is working correctly, that the Windows
box can find the Linux box. However can the Linux box find the
Windows box, from the console, can you ping the Windows box by name?

> The only thing that strikes me as, perhaps, unusual about my
> Win98/TCP setup (by which I mean it wasn't there when I previously had
> Interbase working) is that is that its TCP properties uses another
> Linux box (wormtongue) as a firewalled gateway (dial on demand server)
> to the Internet. I presume, however, that Win98 uses the hosts file
> before resorting to dns.

Actually Windows checks first the existance of the DNS servers, this
is why it always wants to dial the connection, even for local stuff.
Then it looks at hosts, then actually checks the DNS servers. The
best way to get it to do what you want, is set up your own DNS server
on the gateway machine, then have it point to other DNS servers down
the line. You tell Windows to use your Gateways DNS server,

Paul












> What have I failed to configure correctly?
> Thanks for your thoughts.
> CHIP
>
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Paul Schmidt,
Tricat Technologies
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