hi dave,

just a quick thought. i'm suspicious of your hosts file. in my experience
you can define a single hosts file which can copied to each pc on the
network when using fixed addresses. it should look something like this in
your case...

127.0.0.1 localhost
169.254.0.3 PC1
169.254.0.6 PC2


Kind regards,
Pete Bray

> -----Original Message-----
> From: news@... [mailto:news@...]On Behalf Of Dave
> Bullar
> Sent: 24 September 2001 22:30
> To: ib-support@yahoogroups.com
> Subject: [ib-support] win98 firebird connections
>
>
> I am losing all my hair !
> I have two win 98 machines on my desk. I want to have one set-up
> as a server
> and theother as a client. I have set tcp/ip on each and they can ping each
> other.
> I have set up firebird as client and server on each (because I want the
> client to have a local database). I have set up the hosts file on each ..
> but possibly wrongly.
>
> I have set PC1 network address as 169.254.0.3 and PC2 as network
> address as
> 169.254.0.6
> Then I have set the hosts file on PC1 to say 169.254.0.6 PC2
> and the hosts file on PC2 to say 169.254.0.3
>
> I have told each of them working seperately that the sysdba
> password is say
> 'nuts' and I have given each of them a small database file called
> 'c:\ifixed.gdb'.
> I have given both computer full access to the other's drive C.
> But I cannot
> get them to talk either way round !
>
> Please can someone help or at least point ot somewhere where a fully
> detailed process is given.
> Thanks Dave.
>