Yes Thanks Pete. I get the idea.
Is there a step-by-step guide somewhere ?
I get messages when I try service 3050 "Failed to connect to host PC1
on port 3050 Error num Socket Error #10065 No route to host"
but Ping gets through.

--- In ib-support@y..., "Pete Bray" <pete@s...> wrote:
> 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@n... [mailto:news@n...]On Behalf Of Dave
> > Bullar
> > Sent: 24 September 2001 22:30
> > To: ib-support@y...
> > 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.
> >