At 11:13 AM 31-05-01 +0300, you wrote:

>Hello list,
>I've installed Firebird to a Win98 machine as server. From clients I can not connect to my database.
>
>Clients also use Win98
>I can ping server from my clients.
>My server has an ip of 200.200.200.19
>My server's share name is fin_server
>I've modified hosts and services files as they should be.
>(For hosts file I've added : 200.200.200.19 fin_server line,
>for services file I've added : gds_db 3050/tcp line)
>I've checked out connection string and it seems to be true (fin_server:c:\fin\ozture.gdb)
>
>What am I missing?

Make sure all of your clients have the server entry in their hosts files.
Also make sure that they all have TCP/IP at the top of their network protocol stack.

What error do the clients get on trying to connect? Do the clients all have the correct version of gds32.dll?

Regards,
Helen

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